Hey guys, my name is Rosslyn and I live in Virginia. I have been raised here my whole life and I grew up with stories of all sorts of cryptids around here. Last night, however, was different.
My husband, Charlie, and I were out on a drive to his hometown in North Carolina. This place has maybe 2000 people if not less inhabiting, and it’s almost an hour from the nearest hospital. Growing up was odd here, he would tell me. He always said that you were never truly alone, but I always thought it was just the ghosts of hundreds of those who have passed roaming and curiously passing by. I’ve seen a few shadows here and there and i can say I’ve never felt alone, but also I’ve never felt threatened.
This time, we were driving there around 10 pm. There is this spot we like to sit at, and sometimes we need some time away to relax and enjoy each others company. The drive isn’t longer than 2 hours, and we like to take the scenic route around when it’s empty. He had mentioned how he knew this road he used to love to sit at, and at the end of it is a culdasac of trees. When we approached, we were both silent but now I know we were both experiencing the same feeling of “I’m not alone right now.”
That’s when I saw it. Behind the trees, lurking to not be seen, was a tall and gangly figure. I remember feeling petrified and when I caught it’s eyes, I glanced away. I told him to leave right then and there and later explained what i had saw.
As we continued to drive to his old neighborhood, we both continued to feel followed. His streets seemed to have a cast of darkness not typical on these nights. We turned to our usually spot and parked, at this point I had described to him what I had seen and we rolled down the windows to listen.
Silence. Fleeting crickets. Silence. I looked at him and felt that trickling fear of being watched. Again.
We hightailed it out of there and began our journey home, both of us at that point realizing that we are being hunted down. My husband knows how to take these roads and curves, but I can only imagine what would have happened if he took a curve too tight and we hit a tree.
At some point I glanced out of the window into the dark field next to us and I saw it running on all fours. I could feel it’s anger, I was NOT supposed to have seen it. At this point, I told my husband and he maneuvered us to a small little area with civilization; IE a hotel a few fast food places and a Walmart. He decided oddly to turn into the Walmart and park.
Wrong idea. We quickly realized we were being searched for and created a plan to escape. We both knew what was going on and we both knew we narrowly escaped death at that time. Looking into the eyes of your apex predator is feeling you’ll never forget.
we ended up escaping to home and i tried to lay down to forget it all, but quickly realized I am not okay. When I close my eyes, all I could see was it’s face staring back at me. The long white ashy snout with dark hollow eyes and a piercing grey middle to them. It was a tall and stood on both legs, it had a hunch and was terrifying skinny.
It was hungry.
My husband later mentioned he doesn’t know quite why, but the reason he turned down that street in the first place was he felt ‘called’ to go. I felt the same and I know that had we stepped out the car, had I not accidentally caught a glimpse into it’s eyes, we would be dead.
So that brings me to now, this morning. I just woke up after being haunted in my dreams of his eyes and face and I’m asking for help. My husband thinks I’m marked and that I can never return, but I don’t know enough to fully understand what’s happened to me.
Thank you for reading and please give me knowledge or advice on this situation. May 19, 2024

Hey guys, my name is Rosslyn and I live in Virginia. I have been raised here my whole life and I grew up with stories of all sorts of cryptids around here. Last night, however, was different.
My husband, Charlie, and I were out on a drive to his hometown in North Carolina. This place has maybe 2000 people if not less inhabiting, and it’s almost an hour from the nearest hospital. Growing up was odd here, he would tell me. He always said that you were never truly alone, but I always thought it was just the ghosts of hundreds of those who have passed roaming and curiously passing by. I’ve seen a few shadows here and there and i can say I’ve never felt alone, but also I’ve never felt threatened.
This time, we were driving there around 10 pm. There is this spot we like to sit at, and sometimes we need some time away to relax and enjoy each others company. The drive isn’t longer than 2 hours, and we like to take the scenic route around when it’s empty. He had mentioned how he knew this road he used to love to sit at, and at the end of it is a culdasac of trees. When we approached, we were both silent but now I know we were both experiencing the same feeling of “I’m not alone right now.”
That’s when I saw it. Behind the trees, lurking to not be seen, was a tall and gangly figure. I remember feeling petrified and when I caught it’s eyes, I glanced away. I told him to leave right then and there and later explained what i had saw.
As we continued to drive to his old neighborhood, we both continued to feel followed. His streets seemed to have a cast of darkness not typical on these nights. We turned to our usually spot and parked, at this point I had described to him what I had seen and we rolled down the windows to listen.
Silence. Fleeting crickets. Silence. I looked at him and felt that trickling fear of being watched. Again.
We hightailed it out of there and began our journey home, both of us at that point realizing that we are being hunted down. My husband knows how to take these roads and curves, but I can only imagine what would have happened if he took a curve too tight and we hit a tree.
At some point I glanced out of the window into the dark field next to us and I saw it running on all fours. I could feel it’s anger, I was NOT supposed to have seen it. At this point, I told my husband and he maneuvered us to a small little area with civilization; IE a hotel a few fast food places and a Walmart. He decided oddly to turn into the Walmart and park.
Wrong idea. We quickly realized we were being searched for and created a plan to escape. We both knew what was going on and we both knew we narrowly escaped death at that time. Looking into the eyes of your apex predator is feeling you’ll never forget.
we ended up escaping to home and i tried to lay down to forget it all, but quickly realized I am not okay. When I close my eyes, all I could see was it’s face staring back at me. The long white ashy snout with dark hollow eyes and a piercing grey middle to them. It was a tall and stood on both legs, it had a hunch and was terrifying skinny.
It was hungry.
My husband later mentioned he doesn’t know quite why, but the reason he turned down that street in the first place was he felt ‘called’ to go. I felt the same and I know that had we stepped out the car, had I not accidentally caught a glimpse into it’s eyes, we would be dead.
So that brings me to now, this morning. I just woke up after being haunted in my dreams of his eyes and face and I’m asking for help. My husband thinks I’m marked and that I can never return, but I don’t know enough to fully understand what’s happened to me.
Thank you for reading and please give me guidance if you can. May 19, 2024

You guys know what an alpine coaster is? They are like a small roller coaster you find in the mountains. They are also called summer toboggans or mountain coasters and I think there’s some long German compound word they are called in parts of Europe. They are like a roller coaster, but with much smaller one or two person sleds you just sit on instead of multi-person cars you ride in, and instead of being built with like a scaffolding or a framework the tracks are just on the ground, using the elevation of the mountain. Basically it’s a coaster track on the side of a mountain where you ride a sled down.
They are pretty fun. Or at least I used to think so. They are more “personal” than roller coasters and although you get nowhere near the speed on them that you do on a good traditional roller coaster and they can’t do corkscrews or loops or anything like that the openness and simplicity of the ride gives an impression of a much greater speed. You’re just sitting there with nothing but a little plastic sled and the track between you and the ground as it goes zooming by. It’s like the difference between how fast a go-cart feels compared to how fast a sports car feels. You know the sports car goes faster but the open, simpleness of a go-cart feels a different kind of fast. There’s plenty of POV Youtube videos if you want to get the basic idea of what they are.
I used to love alpine coasters. Used to.
My family used to go to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and up and down the Smokey Mountains for vacations when I was a kid and they are common in that area and I’d always rode them every chance I got.
But as with so many things after I grew up and went to college they just became part of my childhood that slipped away. They aren’t exactly common once you get away from the mountains.
Until one cool spring afternoon in 2004. I was in my final year at college and I was driving back to campus in Tennessee after a short visit to my folks in North Carolina. It was only like a 4 or 5 hour drive via the most efficient route and I had no need to be back at campus early so instead of taking the freeway all the way I got off and took part of my trip through the mountains. The scenery was nicer and I admit I liked pushing my Camaro just a little faster than I should through the twisty mountain roads.
Just after lunchtime happened upon one of those little by-the-highway tourist towns deep somewhere in the Smoky Mountains near the Carolina/Tennessee border. Nothing fancy, a gas station/truck stop, a diner, a couple of places selling tourist merch nestled deep in the mountains. I pulled into the gas station. My tank was getting low and I needed to stretch my legs, maybe grab something to eat. It was still early and I only had another couple of hours. I could kill an hour or so and still make it back to campus at a decent hour.
I pulled into the gas station and was filling my tank when I happened to glance across the road and… well I’ll be damned. There it was. “The Blue Ridge Alpine Coaster.” Nestled on the side of the mountain was a building, a mockup of a red barn, where a single railed track that led up into the mountains, where it soon got lost in the greenery. Wooden hand painted standees of cartoon character bears dressed in stereotypical “Hillbilly” getup stood around, some of them holding signs showing the ride hours and ticket costs and other info. I had to admit, as silly as it was, it made me smile.I finished pumping my gas and, well, nostalgia is a helluva thing. I decided then and there I could waste a little time riding an Alpine Coaster again after all these years before getting back on the road.
I parked my car in a corner of the truck stop's parking lot, put my phone in the center console, this being the days before smart phones when people didn’t keep their phones with them 24/7 and I didn’t want my old Nokia brick phone to fall out during the ride, locked my car and walked across the mountain highway to the Alpine Coaster building.
Getting closer, the place was less inviting. The half hearted attempt at a whimsical faux-Americana kitsch was far less effective when it brushed up against the actual decaying, run down wooden building. Hell calling it a building was generous. It was a wood frame holding up a long roof that covered the area where you got on the sleds. The wood boards creaked under my footsteps.
The only real enclosed structure was a shack that held, what I assumed, was a ticket booth. A door on the side had both a single occupancy bathroom with an out of order sign on it. An old Pepsi machine buzzed and glowed next to it.
Still the place looked alive. Ahead of me a bored looking attendant was helping a mother and her young son into one of the sleds while in a bored monotone repeating the safety brief. A few people were waiting in line at the ticket booth. Up in the mountains the playful shouts of people on the ride echoed down. Fond memories of my own childhood rides flooded my mind.10 minutes and 15 dollars later I was settling into the hard plastic seat of a bright red sled sat atop a simple aluminum rail.
I couldn’t help but grin as the sled slowly climbed the track up the mountains, making click-clack ratcheting sounds that hit my nostalgia centers hard. I felt good. The air was cool and crisp and smelled of pine.Higher and higher in the mountains we went. I don’t know if this is my mind trying to make sense of it after the fact but when I remember these moments, the last good moments, I sometimes think I remember a very slight, very subtle pit of fear in my stomach. I honestly don’t know if I felt it at the time or not or it’s just how my mind tries to make sense of it looking back at.
But either way mostly I was enjoying myself. I smiled. I was a kid again. I could hear riders in front of me let out that initial yell of terrified glee you get at the first drop of any good ride.
It peaked. I glanced around. I could see for miles, rolling hills and mountains. I the sled tipped over and zoomed down the mountain and I let out the same happy yell I heard from the other passengers.The ride zoomed down the mountain, catching speed. The mountain forest floor zoomed past, only a few feet under me. Trees zoomed past. I gave out a happy whoop as the ride banked hard around a curve and then looped back under itself.Another dip, another curve. I closed my eyes, enjoying the feel of the G-forces pulling me every which way.
There was no one exact single moment where things started to go “wrong.” The ride kept going. And going. At this point the first creeping thought entered my head.
The ride… was still going.
It just started to hit me… this ride was going on for a really long time. I had taken a dozen rides on various coasters of this type before that day and they topped out at about 5 minutes or so, and that was the long ones. Longer than a traditional roller coaster but not that long. This one had been going on for what felt like 10, maybe even 15 minutes.
I looked back over my shoulder and could only see trees, moving too fast to really get a bearing on where I was at in relation to anything.
I wasn't exactly really worried yet. Okay so I had found a particularly long alpine coaster. At the time I wasn’t 100% wasn't sure they didn’t exist or anything like that. I was a little… unnerved but nothing was happening that was impossible. Yet.
I was trying to talk myself back into just enjoying the ride and stop overthinking it, and halfway succeeded, when out of nowhere I suddenly banked hard, the track jutting out almost over a sheer cliffside. I gripped the sled more tightly as I was whipped around. The ride then dipped hard and picked up speed, barreling down the side of the mountain.
I was pushed back against the seat by the force of the drop. Jesus I didn’t remember them being this rough. I was feeling slightly nauseous. And where had this elevation drop come from I wondered? I was still in the foothills and I didn’t remember seeing anything but gentle rolling hills and light drops from looking at the ride’s route earlier. How the ride had managed such a long, steep drop in this area I didn’t know. . For the first time I hoped that the ride would be over soon. I had no idea then how much I would want that same hope to be true so much more as time went on.
With a whiplash motion I was whipped forward and then back as the ride leveled out on flat ground again, but by this point I was going fast, too fast. My neck hurt from the mild whiplash and I felt sour in my throat and for a moment the contents of my stomach threatened to come back up. For the first, but hardly the last time the ride felt unsafe. Alpine Coasters are tame affairs, much slower and gentler than full on roller coasters but this thing was throwing me around like no thrill ride I had ever been on.
I looked around. I mean I wasn’t that deep into the woods. I should have been able to see a glimpse of something; the highway, the gas station, the tourist shops, the Alpine Coaster office, something, anything. But nothing. Just trees.
I forced back some panic for the first time. I closed my eyes and counted to ten. The ride zoomed along. I counted to 60. I counted to 60 again. And again. Okay this was getting uncomfortably harder and harder to explain.
Suddenly I noticed that up ahead the track seemed to just end, for one brief, terrible moment I thought the track just ended but I was wrong. Almost without warning the track dipped in an almost vertical drop. I almost screamed as I plummeted for 20, maybe 30 seconds before flattening out again.
By this point the voice in my head that was telling me something was wrong was louder and I could no longer tell myself it was wrong. This ride could not have been this long. I tried to make sense of it, wondering if somehow I had gotten diverted onto some kind of maintenance track or, hell for one brief irrational moment even entertaining the idea that I had wound up on an actual train track somehow. But that was absurd. The rail below me was not a train track, it was still just the simple, aluminum rail of an alpine coaster and there had been no diversions or junctions in the track. I was still on the ride, as insane as that was starting to feel. Had the ride somehow looped? Again after having the thought I immediately dismissed it as crazy. There’s no way I could have missed the ride building where I got on. And what kind of ride loops over and over?
The sled zoomed through the forest, oddly never seeming to lose speed despite the relatively flat grade of the track. I cursed myself for leaving my phone in the car and not wearing a watch. I don’t know exactly how long I had been on the ride at that point but it felt like I had been on the ride for a half hour, maybe more. But time is a funny thing when you’re in a situation you’ve never been in. Could have been more, could have been less, at that point.
My pride finally failed me. I started to scream for help. I screamed out that the ride was broken, to stop it, that I needed help. I did that for about ten minutes or so I think. The ride kept going. Mostly flat, level track with occasional mild dips and turns. But the simple length of the ride grew more and more unnerving and unexplainable.
I thought about just bailing out. But the ride, impossibly, was still not slowing down and chunks of mountain rock and thick tree trunks were all around me. Bailing out without risking smashing into a rock or a tree seemed impossible.
The ride kept going.
Up ahead the forest was clearing out some, I could see the forest brightening, more sunlight making it through the canopy.
I wasn’t prepared for what I saw.
The trees stopped and I had just enough time to take in a flat, open area of rock maybe 40, 50 yards at most before another sheer cliff. The tracks twisted and turned and then shot straight down. But that wasn’t the worst of it. For a moment, a very short moment, I had a clear view for miles and the landscape was, to be blunt, totally impossible. Any possibility that I had just stumbled on some incredibly long ride was blasted out of my head. Barren, volcanic looking rock stretched for miles. Jagged, black rocky outcroppings as far as the eye could see. I was in the goddamn Smoky Mountains. They don’t look like that.
I had a few moments for the terror of that view to settle in before the cart plunged into another horrifying drop. I gripped the handles of the cheap plastic sled until my knuckles turned white. The drop felt completely vertical, like I was falling at terminal velocity. I screamed. My stomach dropped and turned. I imagined the sled coming away from the track and me just plummeting screaming to my death on the rocks below. But somehow the ride still functioned. I closed my eyes tightly and just waited for whatever was going to happen. Eventually after several what felt like a full minute of steep plunging the track again leveled out, and I opened my eyes to see myself moving at breakneck speed over that black, rocky landscape.
Now that I was moving on a more or less flat horizontal track again I took a few deep breaths. I looked over the edge of the track. Nothing but that black, jagged rock, almost looking like obsidian, zooming past. I had no idea how fast the sled was moving now. Fast. Faster than a gravity powered sled should be moving. And the track was higher off the ground now. Alpine slides usually stick pretty close to the ground, but I was 20 feet or so in the air, the track suspended in the air, a simple metal tube tower like a power pylon every few yards.
Without any immediate threat and the sled moving fast but steadily and level I was able to think about my situation again, for all the good that did me. Ahead of me the track just continued to the horizon, nothing but the same rocky landscape as far as I could see. I craned my neck to look back over my shoulder and looked back behind me and it looked the same. Even the mountains were but distant specs on the horizon behind me.
This was insane. There’s not a giant seemingly endless field of black jagged rock in the goddamn Smoky Mountains. There’s no cliff faces tall and steep enough for a multi-minute vertical drop. And alpine coasters were small affairs, not major engineering projects that span miles with pylons and vertical tracks. It made no sense.
Sadly it wasn’t going to start making any more sense anytime soon.
The ride kept going.
I was on this rocky landscape for several hours. I feel comfortable saying this because I could actually notice the sun getting lower in the sky. And the sled wasn’t slowing down despite the grade of the track being flat. I was getting cramped from sitting and stretched my legs and twisted my back as best I could. Didn’t do much help. My eyes were starting to get irritated from the constant wind in them. Worst of all it was starting to get chilly. I only had on a light jacket, a windbreaker, just something to keep the breeze off me, no real insulation. I was cold, my joints were stiff, I was hungry and thirsty. My eyes watered and my throat was so dry it was sore.
But none of that was as bad as just how little sense this all made. There’s nothing like this place anywhere near the Smoky Mountains. This was like some volcanic rock landscape. The more I thought about it the less sense it made.
The ride kept going.
My mind didn’t even try to process this. Whatever I was experiencing simply couldn’t be possible. I was crazy. I was dreaming. The CIA had kidnapped me and dosed me with some new version of LSD and I was in a straightjacket in a padded room at Area 51.
The sled kept zooming along as the sky turned to dusk. Soon the bridge disappeared from my view and I continued on along the endless, rocky, featureless landscape.
I sat back against the sled, mentally and physically numb. I was exhausted. I was thirsty. I was cramping up. I was hungry. I had to pee. I held it for as long as I could, then had no choice but just wet myself. I cried until I had no more tears left. Then I just sat there.
The ride kept going.
By the time the sun dipped below the horizon my throat felt like sandpaper. I dug around in my jacket pockets hoping to find a stick of gum or piece of candy. Nothing. I checked again, having nothing else to do. Under a crumpled store receipt in the inner pocket of my jacket was a single old, forgotten cough drop. I unwrapped it from the paper and popped it in my mouth. Saliva flooded back into my mouth and I was overwhelmed by the methanol and medicine taste. It was something at least, although I knew it would be a brief and temporary fix at best.
I felt my eyes get heavy. It was getting colder. That mountain cold. That deep cold the mountains have even into the early spring when the sun goes down. That kind that just pulls the heat right out of you. I shivered. A terrible, horrible certainty came to me. I would ride until I passed out from exhaustion or the hypothermia set in. My body would tumble off the sled to fall and skip across the rocky ground like a stone skipping across a lake, my bones breaking as I tumbled until my body finally came to a stop. If I was lucky I would be killed and not have to lie for days, broken and bruised, on the ground until death took me.
The ride kept going. The ride kept going. The fucking ride kept going.
“Fuck you” I said to the ride, my voice a horse whisper. I pulled my jacket closer around me, for all the good it did. The cold wind was slowly but surely pulling my body heat away. My shivering got worse, crossing the line from a simple normal shiver into those deep, almost violent full body ones.. I wasn’t anything you could call an experienced outdoorsman, but I knew enough to know that wasn’t a good sign.
It was getting dark. There was a full moon at least so I wasn’t totally in the dark.
About then I noticed something. The landscape, what little I could see in the fading light, was changing. It was smoothing out, becoming less rocky and craggy. Up ahead an odd, shimmering light was starting to appear on the ground.
I was over it before I even realized what it was. The tracks were going over a smooth surface.
Water. It was a lake. The odd lights I had seen were the moon, reflected in ripples on the lake.
Within minutes I was out of the view of the land. After the nearly endless rocky landscape and everything else I had seen, it scared me how little I was shocked. I didn’t like how mentally numb I was getting. I leaned over. There was enough moonlight to see the water, 15 or 20 feet below the track. The pylons holding up the track went into the water, the light wasn’t good enough to even make a guess at how far they went down or how deep the water was.I leaned back in the sled. My eyes were red and bloodshot from the constant wind. I closed them. This was a mistake.I jerked awake. I don’t know if I dozed off for a split second or an hour. My weight had shifted and I caught myself as my center of gravity was in danger of sending me off the sled and into the water.
I screamed in anger. A deep primal scream. I hurt so bad. My joints felt like they were full of glass. My limbs were full of pins and needles. I glanced over at the water. For the first time on the very edges of my brain a tiny voice started to speak up, telling me that I could be all over if I just jumped. I shut the voice up, but it scared me still.
I sat there as the ride went on. It felt like hours. Eventually the lake ended in a rocky shore line. The damned ride. There was no safe place to bail out. If the ride slowed down, it was high in the air, if it moved toward the ground it sped up. Sharp rocks, big trees, nothing you could safely bail out into.
I kept having to force myself awake. I kept dozing off. Once I felt myself falling asleep and drove a vicious uppercut into my own nose to stave it off.
I seriously started to think about how much longer I could hang on. The voice came back again. This time I didn’t shut it up. I wasn’t admitting it to myself yet, but I was starting to think about the best way to land that would end it quickly if I needed to.
Something was ahead. The track seemed to dip into the ground. I was too tired, too beaten to even get scared. I was just resigned to whatever happened at this point.
With little warning the track took my sled into a tunnel in the ground. Everything went completely pitch black. After several moments even the dim moonlight was gone.
This was the worst part. The creepy forest, the immense rocky landscape, the eerie lake… those were bad. But this was just nothing. Nothing to look at, nothing to hear, nothing for reference or sense of where I was going. The walls of the tunnel felt like they were inches from me in every direction. The air felt thick, like there wasn’t enough oxygen.
With every moment I was in that tunnel I lost a little more hope. After a long, long time I made a decision. When I got out of this tunnel, I would jump. I didn’t care anymore. Hopefully there would be a spot where I could be certain the fall would instantly kill me. I was done. The ride had beaten me. I sat there, waiting for a chance to end this on my terms. That was all I had left.
Eventually up ahead, a tiny speck of light appeared. I gathered my strength, ready to end it. I sat up, getting my legs under me so I could jump as soon as we were clear. The sled burst out of the tunnel. The dim light of the full moon was enough to be momentarily blinding after the pitch black of the tunnel.. I gave my eyes a moment to adjust.
I was back in a normal looking Appalachian forest. Rolling hills, green trees. The air smelled of pine again. I heard an owl hoot off somewhere.
Slowly I lowered myself back into a setting position, in shock. At first I refused to believe it but the ride was slowing down. I held still, making sure my mind wasn’t playing tricks on me, but no, the cheap plastic sled that had been my world for what felt like an eternity was slowing down.
Up ahead, a structure was visible, peeking out from among the trees in the dim lighting as the sled moved down the track.
It was the Alpine Slide building. The crappy fake red barn where I had boarded this cursed ride so long ago. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, sure it was either my mind or the cursed ride playing tricks with me. But the building stayed there.
It grew closer and closer. The track leveled completely out. The sled slowed down more. Before I had the time to really come to terms with it I arrived back at the building.
The sled slowed to a stop, gently pumping against another sled parked on the track. I sat there for a few moments, gasping in great big gulping fear breaths, trying to assure myself the ride didn’t have one last trick of its sleeve.
I looked around. The place was empty, deserted. The overhead lights were still on and the old Pepsi machine still glowed and buzzed, but the ticket booth was dark and empty, a metal gate pulled down over the ticket window.
Suddenly it hit me that I was free and I practically leapt out of the sled and onto the platform. I immediately collapsed. My legs were jelly and my head was spinning. I tried to stand up again and doubled over, dry heaving. Have you ever been out on a boat for a day and have that weird reverse motion sickness when you’re back on solid land? It was like that times a hundred. My inner ear was literally pounding, all the motion had really done a number on it.
I laid there for a few moments and eventually forced myself to stand up on my two wobbling legs. I looked around, a horrible certainty creeping into my mind that there would be no exit, no way off the platform but to my relief an exit turnstyle, one of those full height ones, was set into the fence that surrounded the ride property.
I went through it and found myself back on the main road. The truckstop was still there, still open but far less busy. My car sat in the same corner of the parking lot I had left it.
I allowed myself one look back, just one quick one. The metal skeleton of the Alpine Slide track sat there, dark and quiet but otherwise normal.
I stumbled-ran back to my car, dug the keys out of my pocket, and collapsed inside. When the door shut I let out a primal scream, the tons of fear and confusion and anger all fusing into a single, raw emotion. I screamed again and again.
After a few moments I felt like I was emotionally at least back to a place where I could act, although I wasn’t sure yet what to do next. Not really knowing what to do I cranked the car. The A/C had been on low when I shut off the car and it came roaring back to life and cold air blowing on me almost sent me back into a full on panic attack. I fumbled with the climate controls until the air stopped blowing directly on me, then calmed down enough to turn the heat on, helping to get the chill out of my bones. There was a half full bottle of water in the center console cup holder and I grabbed it and chugged it. Nothing ever tasted as good before or sense as that few ounces of water.
That was when I noticed the clock on the radio head unit. It was 4:17 in the morning. It had been about one, one thirty or so in the afternoon when I got on the accursed ride.
Over 15 hours. I had been on the goddamn ride for over 15 hours. Over half a day.
I just sat there. Warming up. Calming down. I was exhausted. I was dehydrated. I can’t even describe how my head felt. I probably had at least a minor case of hypothermia. I thought about going into the gas station and asking for help but what would I even say, and more than anything I just wanted to get away from this place. And I just wanted to get away. I wanted to be nowhere near that damn ride.
I put the Camaro in gear and pulled into the street and in panic I immediately slammed on the brakes. I was lucky there was no traffic on the road at that moment. The feeling of accelerating to just normal surface street speeds made me sick to my stomach. I gathered myself and very slowly accelerated the car I usually treated with a very heavy foot up to 30 miles an hour. Every time I tried to accelerate at a pace faster than “Old Lady Going to Church, Uphill” I would have a panic attack. I was okay once I was up to speed, but accelerating freaked me out after being on that ride.
I drove about 30 minutes, putting some arbitrary amount of distance between myself and the coaster. Eventually I made it back to where the twisty mountain road met back up with a major road that would eventually meet back up with the highway. After a few more minutes of driving I saw the onramp for the highway. There was one of those big truckstop travel plazas and pulled in, parking right up at the door. I smelled like pee and I can only imagine how I looked, but I didn’t care.
I kept a couple of emergency 20s in the back of my wallet and spent it on the biggest bottle of water the store had, an overpriced bottle of eye drops, and a huge travel mug of coffee. The clerk looked at me as if he was expecting me to either drop dead or rob him the entire time.
Back in my car I downed the coffee. I put a few eye drops in each of my eyes and sat there as the caffeine took effect until I felt like I could make it back to my apartment. The sun was just coming up when I finally pulled out of the truck stop and got on the freeway. I slowly, very slowly, accelerated up to highway speed, put the Camaro in cruise control, and let the miles start to drift away. I turned on the radio, I needed to hear human voices. Every time my mind went back to what had just happened I turned the radio up louder, eventually drowning it out with painful levels of rock music. I wasn’t ready to think about it yet. Yes looking back I know I was just in denial. I finally made it back to the crappy little apartment I had off campus, a little two story walk up studio. I let myself in and collapsed on the cheap couch. I was asleep before I even had the time to decide whether or not to do anything else. I woke up later that afternoon. I took a shower and ate a meal and didn’t think about the ride. I washed the pee stained filthy clothes I had been wearing and didn’t think about the ride. I went back to class and didn’t think about the ride. Every time I thought about the ride I forced it out of my head. I’m sure this wasn’t the most mentally healthy thing to do but what can you say?
I didn’t forget about it, don’t be silly. This isn’t the kind of thing you forget. One day while looking up something else in the university’s library my curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the Alpine Slide. No website but a few Google Map and Yelp mentions. None of them mentioned anything weird, certainly nothing even remotely like what I experienced. Near as I can tell it closed sometimes in the winter of 2012.
Life went on. I mean, that’s what it does. The next day was a little better. And the day after that a little better. And the day after that a little better still. I met a nice girl. Graduated. Got married. Got a nice house in the suburbs. Got a dog. Had a daughter. Spent a lot of time happy and not thinking about being trapped on an endless alpine coaster.And that was my life for many, many years after that.
Until a few weeks back when as a very different person I found myself driving a boring and safe mid sized family SUV through those same mountains. My wife Carol, 5 months pregnant, sat in the passenger seat, our 6 year old daughter Emily in a booster seat in the back, and Max our mixed breed mutt next to her. It had been a nice pleasant trip, driving back from visiting her folks.
I hadn’t thought about that fucking ride in so long I barely registered that I was in the same general area until it was too late. Suddenly I realized that little mountain tourist trap town was only a few minutes down the road. I swallowed hard and gripped the steering wheel hard. Carol was looking out the window at the scenery and Emily was deep into some kid’s Youtube video on an iPad. I forced myself to keep my breath steady as we rounded the corner.The town was still there, sorta. Time had not been kind to it. The gas station was still there, at some point it had been bought out by Shell. The tourist trap shops were still there. One of them was now a vape shop. The diner was closed, the building looking like it sat unused for a long time.
But of course that’s not what I cared about. A looked over at the site where the Alpine Coaster once stood. It was gone. The kitschy fake barn was gone. The site was just a bare concrete slab with a chainlink fence around it. Faded “no trespassing” and “for sale” signs hung off the fence. A pile of old, decaying lumber that might have once long ago been part of the structure covered part of the old lot. No sign of the track remained outside of some old concrete support posts dotting the side of the mountain.
I exhaled out a breath I hadn’t even realized I had been holding in. Soon the little town disappeared in my rear view mirror.
About a half hour later we stopped for gas. I pulled up to a gas pump across from a massive motorhome. Max stuck his head out the window and started barking at a little white dog, a toy breed of some kind, in the window of the motorhome. Carol and Emily immediately headed into the store to restock on snacks while I fueled up.
I stood there, a half smile on my lips as Max barked and wagged his tail in an attempt to attract the attention of the other dog while I filled up the tank, said dog doing an admirable job of ignoring him.
Right about the time I finished fueling up and cleaning the bugs off the windshield Carol returned from inside the store, Emily in tow, arms filled with two full sized bags of Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips and what looked to be a half dozen individually wrapped pickles.
I raised an eyebrow at the collection of food but knew better than to question a pregnant woman's snack choices.
“Should we take Max for a quick walk?” Carol asked. The travel plaza had a nice little gated dog walking area off to the side.
“Yeah probably not a bad idea, he’s been cooped up in the car for a few hours.” I said. Max, upon hearing his name and the word “walk” , forgot about the other dog and upgraded from wagging his tail to wagging his entire body while making whining sounds and staring right at me.
About this time I became half aware that the big motor home next to us was pulling away. I didn’t think much of it, outside of doing a quick automatic mental check to make sure Emily was well clear of the moving vehicle, but she was safely between me and our SUV, well out of the way.
But that was when Emily looked behind me and cheerfully yelled “Daddy look a roller coaster! Can I ride the coaster?”
It’s cliche as fuck I know but my blood went cold.
I turned around slowly, certain in my knowledge that terrible old decrepit Alpine Coaster would be there, having just popped into existence to trap me again.
That.. is not what I saw. Sure enough there was a coaster there, one I hadn’t noticed earlier because it had mostly been blocked by the motor home, but there it was. It was even an Alpine Coaster.
But it was not the same coaster I had encountered those years ago. That was immediately obvious. It was a small but modern and newish looking setup with neon lights and a bunch of people. There was an actual building where you bought tickets and a little snack stand.
“Daddy! Can we go on the coaster!” Emily asked again.
My mouth made motions but no words came out. I glanced over at Carol, hoping she’d say we didn’t have time but to my horror she smiled and said “You know what? That does sound like fun. Daddy will take you while I take Max for a walk.”
My mind raced, trying to think of a way to get out of it. But Emily was already dragging me across the parking lot to the entrance.
I patted my pocket, making sure my phone was in it. Every fiber of my being was screaming to run away. I slept walked through the line and the ticket booth while Emily bounced happily.
We got into a two seat plastic sled. This one was actually a lot nicer than the one my mind wouldn’t stop thinking about. It had two nice cushioned seats, big grab handles, even a nice rollbar.
The sled started up the track. I fought back the panic. I swerved my head around, keeping the building in my view. I was terrified of losing sight of it. We made it to the top and Emily did a happy squeal as we started down the side of the mountain.
My heart raced. Any second, any second my mind told me we’d lose sight of the building and then the ride would never end. The ride sped down the mountain. My mind tortured me with thoughts of not only going through it again, but seeing Emily go through it. The ride went around a big, banking turn. Emily kept shouting happily. How long before Carol reported us missing I wondered? Could I keep Emily calm? What if it lasted even longer this time? What if this time it never ended?
And then we were back at the start of the ride. The same attendant who had helped us into the sled was helping Emily out. I stepped out. The attendant gave me a brief look but said nothing. I guess I looked a little wild eyed.
I was fine. Emily was fine. It had been a perfectly normal, fun ride.
“That was fun Daddy! Thank you!” Emily said. I forced a smile back. “It was fun.” I responded, hoping like I sounded like I meant it.
I took Emily’s hand and we walked back to the car. Max saw us coming and barked happily. Carol looked up from the pint of Ben and Jerry’s she had somehow acquired and added to her snack collection while we were gone and smiled at us.
“Did you have fun?” she asked.
“It was so fun Mommy!” Emily said.
Carol smiled down at her, but then looked at me and frowned. “Are you okay?” Carol could read my face a lot better than the attendant could. “You’re pale.”
I smiled and this time the smile felt real. “Ya know what. Yeah, I think I am okay.”
Carol looked a little puzzled, but didn’t press it. We loaded Emily back in her booster seat, stopped Max from trying desperately to eat half a discarded gas station hot dog off the ground and got him back in the car. Carol and her small collection of snack food took her place in the passenger seat and I got in the driver's seat.I smiled. I cranked the car. I put it in gear. I pulled out of the gas station and back on the road, this time accelerating just a little faster than I had in years.

Round 1, Pick 12 - Bo Nix, QB, Oregon:
NFL: Nix is an experienced playmaker with the arm talent and athleticism to execute Sean Payton’s offense in Denver. He fits the Drew Brees-like prototype, getting the ball to his playmakers and accurately delivering passes at the short and intermediate levels.
CBS Sports: C-. I don’t love Nix, but I get the pick. Desperation forces teams to pick quarterbacks earlier than they should. Sean Payton obviously sees Drew Brees in him, but this is way early. Why not trade down and get him later?
ESPN: The Broncos thought enough of Nix to make him the sixth quarterback off the board among the draft's first 12 picks. The draft many consider to be the gold standard for quarterbacks -- 1983, that included John Elway -- had six quarterbacks selected in the first round overall, but just two of those in the first 10 picks. Nix's efficiency -- he completed at least 71% of his passes in all 14 games this past season and was at 74.9% completion rate for the season overall -- makes him an easy fit in Sean Payton's offense, as do his mobility and experience (61 games in five college seasons). The Broncos need far more of the QB Nix was at Oregon rather than Auburn given he threw 29 and 45 touchdowns, respectively, in his two seasons in Eugene. He did not have more than 16 touchdown passes in any of his three seasons at Auburn.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: ‘Https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTg7y0VRYNI’.
Round 3, Pick 76 - Jonah Elliss, DE, Utah:
NFL: The son of massive former Lions DL Luther Elliss, Jonah is -- by contrast -- an undersized rusher. He broke out last season with quickness off the ball, decent length and consistently good effort. I thought he was more of a Day 3 player than Day 2, but he could surprise me.
CBS Sports: A-. Twitched-up polished rusher. Production didn’t necessarily match his impressive traits. Serious bend around the corner too. Rushes get high and has long invisible stretches but the highlights are awesome. Needed addition in Denver.
ESPN: In a division that includes Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert at quarterback, the Broncos needed more pop on the defensive edge. They haven't had an edge rusher finish with at least 10 sacks since Von Miller had 14.5 in 2018. Elliss did not work out at the combine or pro day because of a shoulder injury he suffered late in the 2023 season, but he's a high-effort player who should contribute immediately. His father, Luther, played his final NFL season with the Broncos in 2004 and his brother, Kaden, played in New Orleans during Payton's time as head coach. Jonah Elliss flourished in the Utes' defense this past season with 16 tackles for loss and 12 sacks.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: Will flip over any game of Monopoly he sees out of principle.
Round 4, Pick 102 - Troy Franklin, WR, Oregon:
NFL: It was a bit surprising that Franklin went outside the top 100 given his game-changing speed, yet his game is a little one-dimensional right now. He'll have a chance to regain his mojo in Denver, reuniting with his former college QB, Bo Nix.
CBS Sports: A+. Lean effortless speedster with impressive flexibility to get in and out of his breaks. Complete wideout after the catch and tracking it but not a contested-catch type and because of his ultra-skinny frame, is bothered by physicality. Cheap trade up cost too. Excellent.
ESPN: Franklin is a quality value pick in this spot, and the Broncos wanted him enough to move up from No. 121 to snag him with the second pick made on Day 3. Franklin's speed (4.41 in the 40-yard dash at the scouting combine) is needed in the offense. New quarterback Nix has a comfort level with him -- Franklin was one of the receivers for Nix in his private workout for the Broncos. Franklin set a school record this past season in receiving yards (1,383), receiving touchdowns (14) and 100-yard receiving games (eight). He figures to be in the rotation early if he can show his expected impact down the field.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: He said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip hip hop-a.
Round 5, Pick 145 - Kris Abrams-Draine, CB, Missouri:
NFL: I had KAD going earlier than this, even if his lack of bulk and length limits his ability to handle bigger receivers. This is tremendous value for Denver, as Abrams-Draine could win the nickel job early on with his playmaking knack. Chris Harris 2.0?
CBS Sports: A+. Ultra-pesky inside-outside CB who rocked in the SEC for multiple years. Not incredibly fast nor length with size. Awesome tackling reliability. Routinely finds and makes plays on the football underneath and at intermediate level. Has plus long speed. Spectacular value here.
ESPN: The Broncos signed Levi Wallace in free agency earlier this month -- Wallace has started 70 games in his career -- but they still have an opening in the starting lineup opposite Pat Surtain II. Abrams-Draine started his career at Missouri as a wide receiver, and you can see that in his play as a defender when he tracks the ball and in contested-catch situations. He has 4.44 speed and had 40 passes defensed in his career with the Tigers. He'll be in the mix with Wallace, Damarri Mathis and Riley Moss to be the pick at an outside corner spot. At 5-foot-11 3/8 inches and 179 pounds, Mathis will have to show he can battle more physical NFL receivers. He also adds some potential value in the return game -- he returned kickoffs in three of his seasons at Missouri.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: Actually tried to learn to read windings as a kid.
Round 5, Pick 147 - Audric Estimé, RB, Notre Dame:
NFL: Sean Payton had a few bigger backs, such as Tim Hightower and Chris Ivory, in his time in New Orleans, and Estimé fits that mold. For now, he's a two-down hammer who can tenderize defenses, but don't overlook his starting potential eventually, despite lacking good speed.
CBS Sports: A-. Audric Estime, RB, Notre Dame. Built like a Greek god. Ultra-wide frame and plays exactly how you’d expect. Defenders routinely fall off him. Very slow. Will not run away from many at the next level. Has surprising quicks for his size, can work through smaller tracks between the tackles.
ESPN: Estime is the kind of raw power presence the Broncos haven't had in the run game in some time. Javonte Williams, at his best, forces piles of broken tackles, but Estime, at 5-11 3/8 and 221 pounds, runs with a slightly different kind of profile. He averaged 6.4 yards per carry last season for the Irish and has shown himself to be adept in blitz pickup with the potential to be a productive part of a passing game. Williams never looked quite himself last season, his first full season back from an ACL tear, and the Broncos were one of the worst teams in the league with just eight rushing touchdowns for the season. Payton has promised a better, more efficient running game and has repeatedly said a young quarterback's best friend is a defense and a good running game. Estime will have the opportunity to carve out some playing time as quickly as he shows a comfort level in the offense.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: Has his college ID number as his gamertag.
Round 7, Pick 235 - Devaughn Vele, WR, Utah:
NFL: The 26-year-old Vele spent two years on an LDS mission, making him one of the older prospects in this class. But he's 6-foot-4 with long arms and sub-4.5 speed and jumping ability, making him a developmental jump-ball target.
CBS Sports: B. Tall long-striding vertical field-stretcher. Lacks burst off the ball. Can box out near the sideline and in traffic but not dominant in that area. YAC is good, not great. Intriguing type.
ESPN: Vele is a big receiver -- 6-4, 203 pounds at the scouting combine -- and is one of the oldest players in the draft. He will turn 27 on Dec. 12. He played 38 of his 47 career games for the Utes over the past three seasons. He is the second wide receiver in this seven-player draft class, and he faces a scrap to find his way into the rotation, especially if Tim Patrick shows he has regained his form after back-to-back seasons impacted by injuries. Vele ran 4.47 in the 40 at the combine and has punt return skills as well, so athletically he has a chance to carve out a role in what might be, because of his age, a tight career window.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: Roger here, just hoping everyone has enjoyed the draft this year.
Round 7, Pick 256 - Nick Gargiulo, C, South Carolina:
NFL: A Yale transfer, Gargiulo has experience at center, guard and tackle, but he's best at home inside. He's smart, competitive and long.
CBS Sports: B-. Big, long, technically sound interior blocker who won’t move people routinely but doesn’t get tossed around inside. Made transfer from Yale to South Carolina with relative ease. Nothing spectacular about his game but minimal liabilities either.
ESPN: He was at Yale for five seasons, including a COVID-19 year where they didn't play, before one year at South Carolina. He has versatility given he played at left tackle, center and left guard in his career. He moves well and showed this past season he could hold up against the defensive linemen in the SEC. With Lloyd Cushenberry's departure in free agency, the Broncos have a crowd of young players ready to compete for the job that could include Alex Forsyth and Luke Wattenberg -- Broncos picks in the previous two drafts -- as well as fifth-year veteran Sam Mustipher and now Gargiulo.
NFL Absolutely Not Fake News: At least he won’t always get compared to Brock Purdy.

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Breaking News tonight from the Apollo 11 memorial landing site, as Admiral Adam Vir and Captains Warren Richards and Mary Chavez were rescued from the Pacific Ocean, following a journey that was supposed to be historical, turned harrowing. Amy Grey comes to us this morning with the story.
Thank you Julie, it was only a week ago here on the historic Cape Canaveral launch site, that the reconstructed Saturn V rocket was launched by the UNSC International Space and Aeronautics Division on the two thousand and fifty first anniversary of the original Apollo 11 mission. On board The reconstructed rocket were astronauts Fleet Admiral Adam Vir, head of the UNSC deep space exploration division, Captain Warren Richards five year veteran and historical aeronautics expert, and Mary Chavez, six year shuttle pilot veteran, and communications specialist.
The reconstructed Saturn V rocket took off thirty minutes behind schedule at 10:03 GMT July 16 after delays attributed to engineering standbys. However, reports by UNSC investigation early this morning indicate that the delays were called for by engineering head Jade Clein who noticed something strange during her final checks of the Saturn V recreated rocket.
In an interview early today, flight director, Aaliyah Seif of the Apollo re-creation mission informed outlets that there was evidence of attempted tampering on the hull of the Saturn V rocket. The tampering case in the shape of these small silver tape strips covering loosened bolts along one of the Saturn V side panels. Engineers stated that the tape was not heat resistant and would have burned off in time to rattle the bolts loose and, likely, cause a devastating spin that would destroy the rocket.
While this attempted tampering was thwarted, the mission would only become more dire. A sudden and shocking report by Mericanda News 5 showed an uncut image of an unknown alien hybrid woman claiming that the UN President had ordered the attempted assassination of Admiral Vir, in conjunction with an audio recording by Admiral Colter Massie, Head of the Galactic intelligence division and known isolationist, that admitted to the attempted assassination of Admiral Vir, and the acquisition of twenty Thunderhawk’s, which were used to harry the Saturn V on its way to the moon. Admiral Kelly, longtime friend of Admiral Vir, corroborated the story, saying she caught General Massie just after he ordered the deployment of the twenty Thunderhawk’s. During their conversion, he attempted to kill her, before being detained by two members of Admiral Vir's crew, and was later seen being escorted into custody by Military Police.
Indeed, footage has been captured from the hull of the Saturn V, showing approximately twenty Thunderhawk’s attempting to destroy the rocket while Rundi remote piloted drones and an unknown group of what appear to be racing jets, fought back to delay the attack, while word was sent to the UNSC to deploy F-90 Darkfire pilots to assist. This all after communications between Houston and the rocket were sabotaged shortly after leaving orbit. The F-90 Darkfire pilots were able to arrive on time to rescue the rocket, though a hole was reportedly torn in the hull, sucking Admiral Vir out into space. Luckily, he was later recovered and returned to his ship without any injuries. Patch teams were then able to repair the torn hull and the astronauts completed their mission landing to crowds on the moon and returning to earth on time, landing in the Pacific Ocean only nine miles away from the waiting ship.
All three astronauts were recovered and are reported to be in good health.
The investigation into the UN president's involvement is still ongoing at this time, however preliminary reports from the Global Bureau of Investigation suggest evidence is both staggering and damning to the current UN president, who earlier today, attempted to cut all ties to the sabotage efforts, saying she was framed. Political experts report that, even assuming her innocence, she will likely not last to the end of her term.
International News Network was able to interview Admiral Vir shortly after his landing while still on board the rescuing ship UNSS Victory.
Here is what the Admiral had to say:
"I find it... Really very disheartening that someone we all trusted, and someone that we all should have looked up to could do something like this. It really is a heinous demonstration of what political corruption can lead people to do."
"And how do you feel, personally about all of this?"
"Personally, I... well to be honest I am hurt and appalled. Not to mention that I fear for the safety of my family and my friends. Every day I wonder if my involvement with them is going to get someone I love killed... The thought haunts me, but I hope after all of this is over I... and all of us can breathe a little easier."
"Were you scared?"
"I don't think that even needs to be a question. Of course I was scared, getting sucked out of your spaceship isn't ideal."
"What do you hope will happen now?"
"I hope that justice can be upheld to those who deserve it."
"What do you have to say to the UN president."
”...”
”So?”
"I have nothing to say. Wouldn't want to waste the air.”
[…]
What followed would be one of the largest scandals in recent political history. At some point an unknown number of classified government documents was leaked onto the internet, and after that it was all over for the Presidency. Thousands of enterprising humans, and aliens alike, viewed the documents to discover all the underhanded and dirty things which had been going on in the UN governmental body over the past few years. Forensic accounting experts (mostly Tesraki), uncovered plenty of fiscal tampering which shed light on plenty of isolationist related projects and bank accounts. There was even evidence that they had something to do with the original assassination attempt against Admiral Vir so many months ago. The drama had even managed to capture the attention of Rundi political experts and Vrul computer science geniuses, and together they unearthed a world of unfathomable, but not unexpected corruption. The process to remove the UN president from office was probably one of the fastest movements of human government ever seen by UN congressional leaders, who were likely trying their very best to distance themselves from association with the president, who despite not being the only one involved, had become the political scapegoat for everyone else that had a supposed link with isolationism.
Even the VP fell under suspicion and was watched closely for the rest of his term.
Admiral Massie and the UN President were placed under arrest and set up for court dates in the nearing future, though everyone saw a long and arduous litigation process ahead. Even Ramirez's family had filed for damages against the government after the news came to light, confirming that their son had been shot as collateral in one of the UN presidents plans to assassinate Admiral Vir. They settled out of court to the tune of an unknown, but impressive sum of money.
No one really knew how much, but a couple months later Ramirez's younger sister was seen training at one of the most prestigious Olympic academies on earth.
Ramirez himself was suddenly able to afford housing on the moon in a condo just next door to his best friend, though no one else inquired further.
The Rundi chairwoman came forward with her own investigation, admitting to being suspicious for a long time though she feared accusations without proper proof. Admiral Vir was seen having lunch with her not so many months after the events took place, suggesting that the trust between the two of them had not been completely dissolved. With much of the isolationist element gone from government, public policy began to lean heavily towards integration with the alliance. The occasional isolationist demonstration or protest was held, but none of them managed to gain traction.
Admiral Vir was finding himself more important than ever, though it was to his chagrin that his ship was grounded for the intervening months while the investigation continued.
No one was entirely sure what the future held.
[…]
Admiral Vir stepped into Admiral Kelly's office. The last time he had actually visited her here had been over a few years ago, before his promotion to captain of the Harbinger. It seemed so distant now, and he never expected to walk into her office with a star on his shoulder. She stood as he entered, and the two of them shook hands, ignoring all the stuffy formalities that usually come with the meeting of two military officers.
The wall behind her was decorated with a myriad of metals and awards she had received over her career, and he couldn't help but note the slight tinge of grey he could see forming in her hair. He knew that feeling, he was going prematurely white much to his chagrin. She stood and the two of them shook hands.
"Vir."
"Kelly."
She motioned him to sit, and he sat, sighing lightly as he had been on his feet all day consulting with political figures and other members of the UNSC.
"A strange couple months wouldn't you say?”
"Tell me about it."
Kelly reached under her desk and withdrew an amber bottle which she placed between them,
"I always forget; do you drink?"
"On occasion."
"Well consider this an occasion."
She said, popping off the top and pouring two glasses for them. She handed his across the desk and he leaned back in his seat cupping the cool glass in both hands.
She swirled the amber liquid around in her glass,
"So what are your plans after all this?”
He took a sip of water warmed by the burning liquid,
"Hoping things will go back to normal and I can go back to traveling the galaxy."
Kelly grunted,
"A simple man with simple motivations."
He laughed,
"Sometimes I think a stupid man with simple motivations."
She chuckled then grew serious,
"A lot of people make the mistake of assuming simple people don't have the intelligence to match. Some people assume that trusting means gullible means dumb. Just because we are trusting and expect others to do the right thing is not necessarily a fault. I believe there is a kind of beauty in assuming the fundamental goodness of humanity."
Admiral Vir shook his head,
"How can you after seeing what we have seen?”
"How can you not?"
She shrugged,
"We always knew that politicians were corrupt, but think about everything else we have seen."
Admiral Vir nodded slowly,
"The enthusiasm for the Apollo 11 recreation mission, the people who flew up to help us. All of those people who went digging through years of information just to uncover the truth."
She raised her glass,
"Precisely. Goodness in humanity is all around us, but we tend to overlook the good in favor of the bad."
She placed her hat on the desk and sighed,
"It is up to good people to keep their goodness going even when it might seem easier to give into the bad. I have and will always believe in the fundamental good of humanity. Some may call it naive, or even stupid. Others have said I have a romanticized view of a species that is fundamentally broken."
She turned her head to look out the window, a contemplative expression on her face before turning back to look at Adam.
"You understand me, I think."
He nodded slowly.
"People need to be believed in. You tell someone for long enough that they are fundamentally bad at their core and they will begin to believe you. For thousands of years pessimists have gotten it into our heads that we are no better than animals, worse even since animals don't fight in wars. But I believe that is wrong, I have seen people, I have met people, and I have interacted with people who prove to me that humanity cannot just be fundamentally bad or else these people wouldn't exist."
She tapped her nails against the glass,
"I think it is easier to corrupt purity than wash away a stain."
He listened quietly as she continued.
"Humans are born good, Adam, and life stains us. We aren't born stained while some of us are wiped clean."
She shook her head,
"Doesn't make sense to me."
She caught him with a look, pinning him to the spot with her intense stare,
"People like you convince me of this every day."
"Me!?..."
She held up a hand.
"Adam Vir, I am convinced that the best outcome this universe ever had, was when a happy go lucky science fiction freak was lucky enough to be the first man to meet aliens. Any other way things would have gone horribly wrong."
She leaned across her desk,
"The universe needs men and women like you, and not only that but the universe needs people who are going to support men and women like you."
She sat back,
"Which is why I have made a decision…"
He raised an eyebrow in curiosity, not entirely sure where this could be going.
She smiled,
"I have decided to run for UN President."
He nearly spit his mouthful of expensive scotch onto the table, but managed to choke it mostly down.
Eyes wide he set his glass down,
"Are you serious?”
She smiled,
"Seriously serious."
"Well shit, you have my vote for sure."
He raised his glass to her,
"I couldn't think of a better outcome."
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.

I've had numerous encounters. First time I ever saw one was in my childhood home, I'm assuming the neighborhood was built on an Indian burial ground because the whole neighborhood was haunted, not just inside but outside as well. Nothing special about this encounter, they would stand in doorways and just watch. Everyone in the family would see them so I know I'm not crazy.
Second time was in the same house when I was a teenager. There's one called "the hat man" (corny ass name with even cornier stories behind him but just bare with me) I woke up in the middle of the night and I had really bad sleep paralysis. I would get it often so l know how to pull myself out of it. I looked over to my closet and I saw "the hat man" standing there just watching. I didn't sense anything negative or positive, it's like he was just observing me. Anyways, I looked over and saw home and my exact words I said out loud were "what the fuck" then I just turned around and went back to bed. Haven't seen him since, I guess I embarrassed him LOL.
Third time was when I moved out at 17 (currently 20 so all of this wasn't long ago) to a town in South Carolina called Jenkinsville, literally only has 38 residents and I was the only white boy there. There was more cows then peoples you would see them all over the property. The ones that stick out to me most is when I was sitting in my car with my ex girlfriend and we were just talking. I got a feeling that something was watching me and I just figured it was a mountain lion but I looked over to my porch and I saw through the window of my 68 Chevy truck a shadow figure that darted away when I looked at it. I would see them in my bathroom doorway as well. They were tall and skinny with long arms, sometimes their eyes glowed faintly in a dark red, sometime they didn't have eyes.
This one sticks out to me the most. My ex and I were in my room when we heard something walking beside the house into the front yard. It was a cinderblock house with no insulation so it was easy to hear outside. I thought it was just coyotes or a mountain lion so I grabbed my 40mm and went outside to check. When I looked over to the side of the house I saw a shadow figure sort of run back beside the house, I know they can't hurt me but wit do I look like going to see if it's still there, fuck that shit. So I walked back inside and went to my bedroom. I was gonna tell my girlfriend that it was nothing because I didn't want to scare her but she told me she hear fast footsteps run from the front of the house, past the side, and into the woods, so l had to tell her. That one was weird, it was 8 feet tall like the others but more around 6 feet. It didn't have long arms but it was still skinny. It had a white aura around it which I have never seen before. I now live in Florida in a nice lil gated community and haven't seen one since. I'm planning on going back to SC here soon and visiting my old house at night time, I'll see if I can catch one on camera. I caught one in a picture only one time and unfortunately I don't have that phone anymore but if I ever get it back from my ex i will be glad to post it in this thread.
My biggest regret is not taking a picture of the one with the hat. I just honestly didn't give a fuck that he was there and just wanted to go back to bed. From my experience, they aren't negative but they aren't positive either. They just observe and watch. Only a few are negative but none are necessarily positive. I'm not some batshit, spiritual, alien believing weirdo either. I'm just a normal kid that goes fishing and has to fix my truck every 2 weeks because it's a shit box. Believe if you want to, or don't believe, I could care less about either because these are personal experiences not your own experience. I know what I have seen and what I have felt. Thanks for reading!

I've had numerous encounters. First time I ever saw one was in my childhood home, I'm assuming the neighborhood was built on an Indian burial ground because the whole neighborhood was haunted, not just inside but outside as well. Nothing special about this encounter, they would stand in doorways and just watch. Everyone in the family would see them so I know I'm not crazy.
Second time was in the same house when I was a teenager. There's one called "the hat man" (corny ass name with even cornier stories behind him but just bare with me) I woke up in the middle of the night and I had really bad sleep paralysis. I would get it often so l know how to pull myself out of it. I looked over to my closet and I saw "the hat man" standing there just watching. I didn't sense anything negative or positive, it's like he was just observing me. Anyways, I looked over and saw home and my exact words I said out loud were "what the fuck" then I just turned around and went back to bed. Haven't seen him since, I guess I embarrassed him LOL.
Third time was when I moved out at 17 (currently 20 so all of this wasn't long ago) to a town in South Carolina called Jenkinsville, literally only has 38 residents and I was the only white boy there. There was more cows then peoples you would see them all over the property. The ones that stick out to me most is when I was sitting in my car with my ex girlfriend and we were just talking. I got a feeling that something was watching me and I just figured it was a mountain lion but I looked over to my porch and I saw through the window of my 68 Chevy truck a shadow figure that darted away when I looked at it. I would see them in my bathroom doorway as well. They were tall and skinny with long arms, sometimes their eyes glowed faintly in a dark red, sometime they didn't have eyes.
This one sticks out to me the most. My ex and I were in my room when we heard something walking beside the house into the front yard. It was a cinderblock house with no insulation so it was easy to hear outside. I thought it was just coyotes or a mountain lion so I grabbed my 40mm and went outside to check. When I looked over to the side of the house I saw a shadow figure sort of run back beside the house, I know they can't hurt me but wit do I look like going to see if it's still there, fuck that shit. So I walked back inside and went to my bedroom. I was gonna tell my girlfriend that it was nothing because I didn't want to scare her but she told me she hear fast footsteps run from the front of the house, past the side, and into the woods, so l had to tell her. That one was weird, it was 8 feet tall like the others but more around 6 feet. It didn't have long arms but it was still skinny. It had a white aura around it which I have never seen before. I now live in Florida in a nice lil gated community and haven't seen one since. I'm planning on going back to SC here soon and visiting my old house at night time, I'll see if I can catch one on camera. I caught one in a picture only one time and unfortunately I don't have that phone anymore but if I ever get it back from my ex i will be glad to post it in this thread.
My biggest regret is not taking a picture of the one with the hat. I just honestly didn't give a fuck that he was there and just wanted to go back to bed. From my experience, they aren't negative but they aren't positive either. They just observe and watch. Only a few are negative but none are necessarily positive. I'm not some batshit, spiritual, alien believing weirdo either. I'm just a normal kid that goes fishing and has to fix my truck every 2 weeks because it's a shit box. Believe if you want to, or don't believe, I could care less about either because these are personal experiences not your own experience. I know what I have seen and what I have felt. Thanks for reading!

Anybody in North Carolina use anyone else besides Amazon and IngramSpark for printing author copies for book signings? Curious how it went in terms of customer service and quality?
A documentary of the subject of my book was just completed in terms of filming by a four person team who flew in from California to North Carolina to do it on April 15th and 16th, 2024. Hope that demand for my book will increase once the documentary finds a home and it is released.
Right now for 75 B&W books with lots of images there is a $125.00 price difference between the lower priced Amazon and the higher priced IngramSpark. Got me thinking could I do better with an independent printer in the area that I could drive to and save on shipping since I'm centrally located and travel a lot. I go by Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Lexington and all points in between a lot for research on the next book, "Legends of Pilot Mountain."
Have a book signing booth at Cosmic Summit 2024 in Greensboro that seems to be a perfect fit for my book on the ancient sacred Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina that is a crystalline pyramid that is 1,500 feet tall. Hope to give some of the guests a private guided tour of the mountain since it is only about 40 minutes away from the conference. Booths are only $300 for three days so something to consider for authors in North Carolina.
Thoughts or suggestions?
https://www.facesofpilotmountain.com/
https://booklife.com/project/faces-of-pilot-mountain-intriguing-journey-into-the-deep-mysteries-85764

Something in the woods
Something I don’t know what it is, but something is in the woods, something primal and old, something tired, something pure evil, Something very fucking big, something that predates all of this that nothing we made or can make will ever be able to stop. Do you know that feeling that you’re being watched? This thing is so big that it doesn’t give you that feeling. It has eyes everywhere, so many that you can’t tell whether you are looking at it or the woods, maybe it is the woods, and we’ve always lived with it, something older than the big bang or whatever came before it. Something older than our concept of God or God itself. When it moves the forest moves with it, it is the forest. One of those things that came long before humans or plants, names, rocks or sound. It can remain shapeless, which means it can remain deathless and it is not restricted to our space nor the blue rock that is the earth, something that attempting to rationalize or size up would reduce the hardest men to tears and screams of pure insanity and terror. It comes from a place in this hostile universe that is savage, hungry, and primal to its core, a place our god ran from when he created this. It’s always watched us, but we are not and never will be big enough for it to care. Few men have seen it and fewer men have understood it. None survive. To see it is to meet fate, something so terrible and large and beautiful and bizarre shatters the mind and soul. Something so big that death can’t escape it. Death simply takes us to a different place, and whatever piece he takes with him takes us to a place where IT IS. Maybe it isn’t evil, just primal. Older than concepts and our small insignificant differences that we so desperately attempt to use to get ahead. It doesn’t matter, nothing matters and only one thing is certain. There is something in the woods.
I wake up again in the cold sweat that I’ve become used to. It’s that same dream that always comes after she disappeared. I never used to dream. Kelsey said it’s because I had no imagination. What I wouldn’t give for her to say that to me just one more time, but that’s why I’m here isn’t it? The dream gets longer, more vivid the further I follow her. It must mean I’m getting close. I pull over at the motel where he said it would happen and stare into the woods across the street. I feel a strange pulling sensation the longer I stare, and I have to force myself to look away. I’m in the right place, I know it.
“Chuck. You’ve been here all day and all night for over a week. You need sleep.” Bob says as he sits up straight at his desk.
“I’ll sleep when I catch this fuck.” I say as I down yet another cup of coffee.
“Chief has been talking about putting us both on sabbatical after this case. He said he might not wait and just let Morris and Rogers take over.” He says, standing to meet me at the board.
“Those two dumbasses couldn’t find water in the ocean. We almost got…... get me 10th precinct on the line and call in the SWAT team, I know who it is.” I say putting my coat on and heading down to my car.
The triple murder case was closed. Turns out the owner of a local butcher shop had the idea that selling high end restaurants human meat would be a grand money-making scheme. What was left of his victims were found in a storage locker 5 miles from the shop. 3 officers retired after the case was closed. Bob and I were given a month-long sabbatical for our troubles. I decided that the joint savings account could take the hit and Kelsey and I should commence our delayed honeymoon in the Bahamas.
I opened the door of my apartment and expected to be greeted by Kelsey, the brochure in my hand ready to drop the happiest bombshell in the last 6 months. Instead, I was greeted by silence. At first, I thought rational husband thoughts, after all it was 10 AM on a Tuesday, and she was a full-time accountant. And then I see the little piece of paper that would alter the course of my life forever.
DON’T FOLLOW. I LOVE YOU. – Kelsey
I would spend the next few days in a drunken stupor, going through the divorcee grief process, waiting to be served from a different state or a post card with a new man on it, but nothing came. A week went by, and nothing came. I called, I texted, I emailed to no avail. I tried to reach her parents, her siblings, all to no avail. I would spend hours staring at the note trying to find something, anything that would lead me to her, and as if my pathetic state was so moving that it caught the attention of something beyond our realm, I was thrown a cosmic bone. A glint of light would expose the symbol drawn in invisible ink. This is where having an old flame in the FBI comes in handy and soon after calling in a few favors, I received the phone call.
“Yknow, it’s not every day that you get something from a secret organization, I’m still amazed that you even found it.” Syd muses.
“I’m a detective that’s kind of my thing.” I say, taking another drag of my cigarette as I stare out into the skyline.
“Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news chucky, but these guys are good, I’ve found jack shit on the internet about it aside from a few scattered remnants here and there.”
“Do you have a general location? I get the feeling that this isn’t a symbol you find just anywhere.”
“A few scattered carvings on trees, a few tattoos. Give me two seconds…. Alright, I’ve narrowed it down. North Carolina ringing any bells?”
I almost drop my cigarette.
“She went home.” I say, feeling like an idiot for not thinking of it sooner.
“Look, I know what you’re thinking, but let’s try and think rational here, I don’t know if it’s a good idea that you just go stomping around her neck of the woods. People leave each other all the time…”
“SHE WOULDN’T LEAVE ME.” I almost scream into the phone.
Almost a minute of silence passes.
“I’ll give you a call if I find anything more. Don’t do anything stupid.” She hangs up before I can say another word.
As I walk to board the plane, I get a strange feeling that I’m being watched. I look around to see who’s making the hair on the back of my neck raise until I see him. He’s tall and wears a black jacket and jeans. A long beard covers his face, and his eyes are almost white with cataracts, but somehow, I know that he still sees me. He continues walking towards me and I feel my hand drift into my pocket and feel the cold metal of the pocketknife. I wait until he stands next to me and as he’s walking, I hear him say one word.
“Usurper.”
The word has burned itself into my mind and stays with me until I drift into sleep on the flight.
That’s when I had the first dream.
I stand in the clearing looking at the tree line of the woods. I can see the trees begin to move ever so slightly until it makes some sort of face. It blinks.
I wake with a start as the flight attendant nudges me back into consciousness.
“Sir, the plane has landed.” She says with a smile that is a little too wide. I notice that we are the only ones still on the plane and I begin to feel the hair on my arms rise. She turns to walk off and then turns around to look at me one last time.
“For her sake Usurper, don’t interfere.” She says and she steps into the terminal.
I drive to her hometown of Troy, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Usurper? Interfere? What the fuck is going on here? The thoughts plague my mind until I reach her parents’ house. I see the smoke from miles away. At first, I think it’s just a garbage fire until I turn down the dirt road that leads to the house and can almost taste the acrid vapor. I continue down the winding path and stop at the smoldering remains of the foundation. There is not a single inch of the house that hasn’t been turned to ash or charred wood. No fire trucks. No cops. No ambulances. What the fuck is going on here.
I decide I need to try and get some face to face with the locals and so I head to the bar closest to her former home.
I enter the bar and pull up a chair. The Bartender walks up and slaps his hands on the counter.
“What can I get you?” he says cheerily. The bar is empty except for the two of us and I can tell he’s appreciative of the company.
“Whisky Sour.” I say, which warrants a strange look from him.
“You new around here?” He says with an analytical tone.
“How could you tell?” I say as I count the cash in my wallet.
“It ain’t every day I got folks asking for fancy drinks like that.”
“You got Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“You got Coke?”
“Yep.”
“What’s the next thing do you think I’m gonna ask?” I say, finger gunning him and trying my best to force a disarming smile.
“Single or Double?” He says returning a middle finger.
“Double.”
“Gotcha, want to keep the tab open?”
“Sure.”
He slides me the drink and then pulls up his own stool from behind the bar.
“So, what brings you to town?” he says, eyeballing me like I’m a new exhibit at the zoo.
“Looking for someone. Think you could help?”
“Town ain’t all that big Yankee. You a cop?” He says with a grin.
“How’d you know I was a cop?” I say, surprised at his analysis.
“Accent, Walk, Talk, you’re probably also carrying despite the fact that says no firearms on the premises. Plus, the fact that you’re looking for someone. So, what are you? Marshall? DEA? FBI?” he says, counting on his fingers as he picks me apart.
“So that makes me federal off the bat? Not just a new deputy?” I say, returning with my own sarcasm.
“I run a dive bar in bumfuck nowhere; I know every single cop in this county. Plus, nobody moves here by choice.” Swirling his finger in the air with a laugh.
I laugh with him as I realize that there isn’t a point in trying to hide it, and if anyone knew what was going on around here it was probably him.
“So, what are you doing here?” He says leaning in.
“I’m looking for someone.” I say leaning in and sliding a 100$ bill across the counter.
“Who?” he says, eyeing the bill.
“My wife.”
He throws his head back and laughs.
“Ah yes, one for details. Does this wife of yours have a name? Also keep the money, I ain’t a man who needs to be bribed for his help.” He says sliding the money back to me.
“Kelsey Smith.”
Almost as if on queue, the doors of the bar fly open, and 3 men walk in. They walk almost in lock step and carry easy smiles that deeply unsettle me. The same smile that the flight attendant had.
The bartender stiffens at the sight of them and becomes noticeably uncomfortable.
“Terry.” The leader says warmly, stepping forward to the bar.
“We’re about to close.” Terry says as he begins shutting the lights and jukebox off.
“We can help!” and with a wave of his hand, he disperses the other two to stand at the opposing sides of the bar, blocking our exits.
While the goons look passively on, the smiles still on their faces, the leader pulls up a seat right next to mine.
“My name is Jeremy.” he says, extending his hand in a polite but almost forceful manner.
“Pleasure” I say, sipping from my drink and leaving him hanging. He puts his hand on the counter and the smile on his face grows, almost as if he were baring his teeth.
“You’re new in town. What’s your name.” He says, angling his entire body towards me.
“Charles.”
“Well Charles. Allow me to cut to the chase, have you had the dreams yet?”
This sends a shiver up my spine, and I feel sweat break out across my forehead.
“I’ll take that as a yes. Now, I understand that you are stepping into an environment that you would consider…. Foreign” he says motioning his hands across the bar.
“But when two people call you the same name before you even get to a destination, one must ask himself. Is this the place I should be going?” He sounds like my old elementary school principal, the prick always knew how to talk down to me, keeping perfectly calm but managing to make my blood boil.
“I’m just looking for my wife. I will leave when I find out what happened to her.” I say, staring into my drink.
“There is something at work here that many people have put a lot of effort into, Kelsey included, and we will not have the usurper come and disrupt our efforts.” At the mention of her name I turn to look at him. His face is off. His eyes are wild and almost manic, and his lips are quivering ever so slightly.
“What do you want.” I growl and feel my hand drift to my waist.
“Leave. Never return. I’m sure you know the spiel.” He says. His tone has changed as well. If he wasn’t threatening me then he is now.
“And if I don’t?” I say, sparing a glance at Terry. His hands are under the bar now, most likely reaching for a piece he has underneath the counter.
“We will spare no detail.” Jeremy says, as the veins in his neck begin to bulge.
“Alright, you’ve sold me. I’ll leave.” I say as I stand, put the hundred back on the counter and stand from my seat.
“I’m so happy we decided to be reasonable.” Jeremy says, his face returning to its normal shape.
Without a further word, I get in my car and begin speeding down the road. It’s past 9PM and I’d bet my retirement on the fact that they’re going to follow me, and they sure as hell aren’t going to let me leave this town alive.
I drive for about 10 minutes down the dark and winding roads, long enough for me to realize that I haven’t seen anyone else on the road, which is strange in its own right. My thoughts are interrupted as a pair of headlights appear in my rear-view window and gunshots start ringing off into the night. One nails my taillight, another peppers my trunk. I speed up as my side mirror disappears with another crack. I pull out my own pistol and fire blindly through the rear windshield. One of the headlights on the truck goes out and a second later the truck veers off the side of the road, its course being intercepted by a tree. I look at my pistol in shock. And feel myself chuckle as I pull off to the side of the road. “Still got it.” I say to myself.
I reload and step out of my car and go to inspect the wreckage of my failed assassins. I’m not shocked to find that it’s Jeremy and his 2 goons from the bar. One of them was sent through the front window and face first into the tree, his body resembling something of a meat accordion. The other is slumped in the front seat, a noticeable indention in his skull after he hit the steering wheel and a penny sized hole in his forehead. I look around the truck to see the back door open and a trail of blood leading into the forest. I see Jeremy sitting against a tree. His breathing is labored, his legs are mangled, and he clutches his shoulder as he tries to plug the new hole, I gave him a few minutes earlier. I keep my gun on him as I approach.
“What happened man? I thought we were gonna be reasonable.” I say as I continue walking towards him.
He looks up at me. His smile is long gone, and only rage stains his face.
“Cmon then, get it over with.” He spits at me.
“I’m in no rush Jeremy, I need to ask you some questions.”
“I’m not telling you shit, Usurper.” In response to his name calling, I kick one of his legs which causes him to yelp like a beaten dog.
“Let’s start with that. What’s this Usurper thing about?” I say, dragging a log for me to sit on.
“You are the arch enemy. You will destroy everything my people have built. You and yours will be the ones to usher the destruction of all.” Despite his truly terrible condition, I’m impressed at his vigor and energy.
“I’ve started having dreams Jeremy. Something tells me you know why.”
He laughs at this, a harsh wheezing that sounds like the irony is worse than his pain.
“You moron. You’re apart of this, all of it.” he says, as he leans his head back on to the tree and stares into the sky.
“I’m a part of what. You keep saying these things that don’t make any sense. The only reason I’m here is for Kelsey, you know who she is, you know where she is. Tell me, and I’ll call an ambulance.” I say as I snap my fingers to make sure this smug bastard is staying awake.
“All will be revealed in due time.” He says it, reciting it like a mantra.
“Alright then, I tried the nice way.” I say smacking his hand away and sticking my thumb into the bullet hole in his shoulder.
He winces.
“Where.”
I dig. He moans.
“The Fuck.”
I dig deeper. He cries out.
“Is she.”
I push to the bone.
“STOP STOP. I’ll TALK.” He howls.
I pull my thumb out and rub it on his shirt.
“Sunset. Roadway inn. Cross the street and walk until you hear the songs.” He says as he coughs and tries to compose himself.
“That wasn’t so hard, was it?” I say.
“May it tear you limb from limb usurper.” He says, and then pulling a knife from his waist belt and draws it across his throat.
I stand in shock as he slumps over and gurgles out his last few breaths.
As I stand in the motel room, I do a last-minute check. I take my old hunting rifle and make sure the scope is still working. I tap all of my equipment and jump up and down to make sure nothing rattles. A gnawing feeling in the back of my mind tells me that I came unprepared, but it’s too late to back out. I find my resolve and step outside. I’m in the right place. I stand in the spot where I stand in the dream. It’s almost as if I can see the forest stare back at me, and without further thought I walk across the street and make my way into the trees. I don’t walk far when I can start hearing the songs. A bizarre chant carried on the wind, in a language that I’ve never heard. I can then see the firelights in the distance as the songs grow louder. I see a hill and climb it, and then crawl until I reach the top. What I see draws the breath from my body.
A massive pit. A black hole in the middle of the forest. Standing around it is a ring of torches and behind it stand over 100 people. They’re naked and are covered head to toe in bizarre tattoos, with the same joyous smiles that Jeremy and his men had plastered across their faces. At the front of the pit stands an altar and that’s when I see her. Standing at the edge of the pit is the love of my life, naked, tattooed and smiling. Beside her stands a man, who raises his hands and silences the song.
“It seems that everyone has finally arrived.” He calls out. Which ignites a cheer throughout the crowd. Shit. Theres no way he knows I’m here.
“YOU’RE TIME HAS COME. RISE. CLAIM THE STARS.” The man screams and falls to his knees.
I then see movement in the pit, and giant tendrils rise and begin to plant themselves on the sides of the hole. The man rises and stands behind Kelsey, who he then begins to push towards the hole. She resists and begins to push back. I decide that I’ve seen enough and line the scope of the rifle with the center of his chest. Breathe out. And squeeze the trigger. I feel the push as the shot vibrates throughout my body and a hole appears in the man’s chest. Silence falls and then screams ring out. “USURPER”
Before I understand what’s happening, they’re on top of me and dragging me towards the pit. They beat me with their fists and clubs, tearing my clothes off and painting the tattoos on my body. I try to fight but they hold me down and drag me to the altar. I am brought to my knees before the altar and look at Kelsey. She is joined by an old woman who raises her hand to bring the crowd to silence.
“THE FALSE VESSAL HAS BEEN DISPOSED. THE USURPER HAS COME TO LEAD US TO THE STARS.”
I’m brought to my feet and led to the edge of the pit. I feel a hand grab mine. I look to see Kelsey holding on to me. She pulls me into an embrace, pulls away, and leans into my ear.
“Trust me.” She says, and then shoves me into the abyss.
I’m falling. I fall for what seems like hours and seconds. I finally land. I begin to sink, and I realize I haven’t landed on the ground but something warm. Something alive. I then feel the tendrils wrap around me and pull me in. I sink and as I sink, I begin to see. A billion-year plot, eons of deliberation, plans, executions, all of history, every hour, every minute, every second all converging to center on this very moment. The big bang, the creation of all life, and everything before it. I begin to feel an urge, the urge to claim, the urge to conquer, the urge to take. I rise. I continue to rise until I rise out of the pit and into the sky to go and claim the stars.

FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800 u/BakeGullible9975 u/Didnotseemecomein and u/medium_jock
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
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"Come on, Krill, isn't it just... Just awesome!"
"That, that right there is an absolute raging death trap. Listen to me now. You get in, you’re gonna be dead."
"Oh come on!"
Adam said, hands on his hips as he stared up at the rocket. The Saturn V replica down to the last bolt.
He grinned and danced around on his toes in a circle,
"This is gonna be so cool!"
Krill turned to look at Adam,
"No, no this is not cool, Adam. I am serious this time, not joking. I really don't want you going in that thing. And with the assassination attempts and... All that is going on with the GA leaders..."
He looked at Adam very pointedly here,
"I don't think you should do this."
"Are you serious, a once in a lifetime opportunity and you want me to just say no, because there is a possibility someone Might try to kill me?"
"Um... YES. Also it is not a possibility... IT IS A FACT!"
Adam crossed his arms,
"Krill, I refuse to let myself live in fear when there is life to be lived."
Krill turned to look hopefully over at Eris who was standing quietly by his side. She shook her head at him.
"He isn't going to change his mind."
"Can you at least try?"
She sighed,
"Ok."
Gently Eris took one of his hands forcing him to look at her,
"Da...Adam think about it please, there are a lot of powerful people after you, powerful and with resources. If they want to kill you, then this will be the perfect time to do it. They could put it off as some horrible accident, and no one would be the wiser."
She paused as he looked back at her,
"I can see that this isn't going to change your mind either..."
He smiled,
"This is what I have my people for."
He took the two of them by the shoulders and led them to where they could overlook the command station in the distance,
"In there, right now, there are elements of the criminal underworld that owe me a favor, looking for any clues to indicate an attempt on my life."
He grinned,
"Also, I have not only ONE but TWO secret weapons."
He put his arm around Eris and then turned his head to look up at the sky.
Eris and Krill followed his lead.
Krill groaned,
”For fucks sake...”
Eris went wide eyed.
”Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Not it’s a meeee!”
A starborn descended from the sky, ribbons flapping, hands outstretched dropping from heaven like an ethereal angel. Sunlight bounced off his skin as he moved slowly downward hands held out to the side fingers outstretched.
”HALELUJAH! HALLLEELUJAH! HAAAAALEEEEEEELUJAAAAHHH!”
Oh wow! How angelic!
She stepped forward,
How very ethereal!
That was what she was thinking, until she was hit with a wall of his thoughts.
*Glass shattering noise*
She no longer saw him as ethereal.
He was an asshole…
And a petty, raging idiot.
Conn drifted towards the ground but didn't touch it, ribbons swirling around him, ugly seaweed undulating in a dark sea.
Yes, her thoughts about him had changed that much, he had gone from angel to ugly seaweed rather quickly in her head.
He turned his eyes to her and started to sign, his gloves quickly converting movements to sound.
“Who invited you? Don’t like you. You tried to… no you ACTUALLY blackmailed me on our first small meeting…And now you’ve already forgotten me? Is that how you youngsters treat your Elders nowadays? No respect for ancient starbornkind. It’s that pesky human DNA isn’t it? Brings out the worst in you!”
Eris frowned,
"I-“
Adam glowered at Conn,
"Be nice to her."
Conn turned his head to look at Eris and drifted closer looking her over,
”Oh daddy issues I see, well who doesn't though, that’s pretty normal..."
He turned to look up at Adam,
”Gotta love people borrowing your DNA for craft projects especially when they give you kids a little too early."
Adam was not able to hide the thought that came marching to the forefront of his mind.
You know that's interesting considering your starborn DNA was the most easily accessible before Eris was born.
He didn't say it out loud, but he didn't need to.
Eris made a face, and Conn drew back.
"HIM!?!"
Shit!
Adam thought,
"I never said that!”
"But you were thinking it."
She retorted, turning on him with her eyes narrowed, before turning to look back at Conn, who floated in shock behind her.
Adam held up his hands,
"Woah now, I can't be for sure, it just makes sense."
Eris turned back to where Conn was floating and made another face,
"But, but HIM. I don't want... I… I can't be related to HIM."
Adam sighed, while Conn was making finger pistols in their direction,
"Being able to read his thoughts must be a bitch eh?"
”You have no clue right now he is thinking…”
Eris reched out to try to probe at Conns mind to hear…
TV static!?
ERROR 404: Mind not found. The number you are trying to reach is currently unavailable, please try again later or leave a message after the beep.
Eris was confused,
”How!? I hate you!”
Conn just stared onwards absently, then moved his head to the elbow of his left hand an stretched his right hand out flat, upwards towards his right side.
”Dab! Head empty, only bastardness.”
For some reason, at the moment Conn wasn't really having any thoughts. It was mostly just TV static with an undercurrent of the thoughts of people around him amplifying them even more in Eris's head. Which is why she could hear Dr Krill quietly inching away as he wondered if he should tell them or nah?
He had suspected as much the moment they had seen Eris, and learned that the DNA being used was Adam's.
It had been easy enough to get Adam's DNA strands from the original hybrids... The adaptids... But they would have needed other aliens to pair him with. And there was only one known starborn available to steal DNA from.
Meanwhile Conn's static just continued.
Eris groaned and put her hands to her head.
Adam rubbed his forehead,
"Well, on the bright side, you turned out more like your human side of the family."
That's when the static in Conn's head fizzled out and he turned to look at Adam. With a sudden Evil grin, which he must have been practicing, for it seemed far to human for him, he floated over and grabbed both of them around the shoulders,
"Isn't this sweet, now we can all be one big happy family.”
"Get off me Conn."
Adam grumbled,
He just squeezed tighter, though as a starborn the strength was somewhat lacking.
”Don't talk like that, you and I have a beautiful daughter together. Just look at her. She's got your internal organs and my skin. Isn't that lovely?”
"Conn I swear if you keep touching me I will punch you and probably break something."
Conn made a sound like he was sighing as he pulled away,
"You know, as her parents we should really be trying to set an example for a healthy loving relationship. A family that plays together-"
He floated away quickly before Adam could swipe at him missing the strike by mere inches.
"Domestic assault in this household! How dare you! And in front of our child!"
Eris hid her face in her hands,
"Oh god no."
She was definitely not sure how she was supposed to feel about this. On the one hand, she was at least glad that Adam wasn't repulsed by the idea of her existing. However, on the other hand, it was likely that her paternal starborn side was Conn! The thought made her nauseous. Reading his thoughts made her feel the same way.
Clearly this creature, whatever he was had never grown out of petty pranks, and intense sarcasm.
More annoyingly, he seemed to have the ability to hide things from her, just by NOT thinking about them. She learned nothing about his past, or really his more internal thoughts. He only let her see what she wanted to see, and what he wanted her to see made her more annoyed the more she thought about it.
"I'm so excited, aren't you? Finally, reunited at last!"
Adam sighed,
"This is not how I planned this. Conn you stupid bastard, I called you down here to do a job for me."
"You wouldn't call your hubby stupid would you?"
Adam looked like he was about to turn green,
"Never in a million years would I ever even consider that. In fact, I think I would rather shoot myself out the airlock and have all the nitrogen bubble out of my blood, thank you very much."
"Never say never… One-night stands happen."
"Conn I swear if you keep going down this metaphor. I am going to commit murder. Never in a million years would I touch you with a nine and a half foot pole, end of story."
"Excuse me for being skeptical as you have been known to date aliens in the past."
"That was Sunny, who is arguably, not even arguably, but she IS smart, talented, funny, a total badass, and a fucking gem, while you are a creepy little space gremlin."
"Yet I have a kid with you and she doesn't sooooooo, forgive me if I say I win."
"We can't be for sure that she's yours."
"I demand a paternity test! Let’s get this right up to Lauren Lake!”
"Conn, if you don't let this go right now, I am going to rip your spine out through your back and let Waffles chew on it."
"Bold of you to assume I have a spine!”
Adam took a deep long-suffering breath,
"I am done with this conversation, now I called you down here for a reason, and that reason is that I need you two watching out for something going wrong. Eris, as a member of my family you will be allowed inside mission control to watch what is going on. Your job is to make sure that no one is planning my death from the inside."
He turned his head in Conn's direction and flipped him the bird as he continued to speak,
"You on the other hand are in charge of the engineers. I know you don't give a shit about boundaries, so your job is to hang around the engineers and the rocket hangars to see if any of them had a hand in sabotaging the mission. If you can get near the chairwoman, or the UN President, then do what you can. I need to know how deep all of this goes."
He turned his head to Eris,
"You are probably going to be able to get closer to everyone than Conn can. People know he is a starborn and they know what he can do. No one will assume anything about you if you keep your head low."
She smiled,
"Already done dad."
A little part of her leaped inside, and she felt giddy. Adam needed her to help protect him!
She was being useful for once! Not to mention that this meant he trusted her and... She turned a side eye on Conn… then again, that probably meant that Adam trusted him too.
What an idiot…
”Love you too little one.”
”What? How did you…”
”Oh just a wild guess actually.”
The starborn grinned at her again, showing rows and rows of sharp circular teeth.
She winced and looked away.
Gross…
"I have to get going, but you two should get to work. This is going to be a long week."
Adam whistled once, and Waffles jumped up from where she had been resting at his side, and gently trotted after him as he walked away back towards the command station. Eris stared after him and Conn floated up next to her.
"What an unexpectedly delightful day, don't you think my little girl?”
"Can you be less creepy please!?”
"It runs in the family Eris, you have the creepy inside you too. Embrace it! Rock it! Mind reader life is good life! Among the silent, the readers are kings or something like that…"
”Oh my god…”
”I see no god here, other than meee! Hehehe! Now go catch up with daddy number 2! Daddy number 1 has to go say hi to some potentially traitorous engineers! Lova ya byeeee!”
She shoved him away with one hand and ran to catch up with Adam.
She could hear Conn laughing behind her as he floated away towards the hangers.
She glanced over his shoulder as she grabbed onto Adam's arm,
"Why is he so weird!?”
Adam shrugged,
"I think something happened to him when he was first born. I would say that he was dropped on his head, but that's probably not accurate. Think I heard something about him having been isolated from his clan for the first few thousand years with his dead mother, but I don't know if that's true or if it's just something he made up. Either way I think whatever happened to him kind of made him psycho."
She glanced over her shoulder to the figure floating off into the distance,
"Than why do you keep him around?"
He sighed,
"Unfortunately, his abilities are invaluable. The ability to bring him along when it comes to negotiations, or to talk with new alien species speeds up both diplomatic missions and learning new languages."
He sighed,
"Also, as far as I can tell he is pretty loyal. He always does everything I ask him to do as long as it is important enough. Sure, if I asked him to pick up after himself he'd probably flip me the bird and go floating in the other direction. But every time something big and important has happened, he has always been relatively reliable. A part of me wonders if he just doesn't know how to interact with people, and somewhere deep down there is a desire to be wanted, but that's not something I can prove."
He glanced pointedly at her.
She shook her head,
"Sorry, he's pretty good at hiding what' he's thinking."
Adam grunted,
"A real pity. Now-"
He turned to look at her, placing his hands on her shoulders and looking her in the eye,
"Stay low. If you hear anything, don't try to do anything about it yourself. Call my ship, either Sunny or Ramirez and they will deal with everything. If you see someone wearing a red pin with a white rocket on it, then those are our undercover guys, and they should be able to help you too. But it's likely you will know who they are anyway."
He looked her in the eyes,
"Whatever happens, your safety comes first, not mine. You got that?"
She nodded eagerly, even though she knew that last instruction was a lie.
He was more important than her.
And she was going to make sure that he stayed safe.
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.

I just started writing this piece and is very new to fiction writing. My vocabulary isn't very extensive so I did ask AI for word use suggestions and descriptive addition suggestions. I have a lot to learn and definitely make a lot of mistakes so hope you can give me your genuine feedback kindly!
Romance Fiction #1 Synopsis:
Amid the isolated life in interior Alaska, Jenni and Justin found themselves on an unexpected collision course. Jenni, an undecided major college student, and Justin, a young man seeking purpose after escaping homelessness to join the Air Force, are both navigating the uncertainties of their twenties.
Fate intervenes when a chance meeting at the local animal shelter sparks an amicable friendship between the two. Determined to prove his worth, Justin proposes a unique arrangement – 10 dates to demonstrate that an ex-homeless person can provide the security and love Jenni deserves.
Will the weight of Justin’s past and the uncertainty of Jenni’s future prove too much for a romance to blossom? Let’s find out!
Story:
May, 4^th, 2024
It’s a sunny Saturday in May, the kind that beckoned for long strolls and leisurely afternoons. The temperature is warm enough to leave your woolen items at home, but not to show off too much skin. Jenni puts on a long sleeve light color shirt, and a pair of jeans, and her Calvin Klein white puffy jacket as she is heading to Sweet Pups and Paws animal shelter. Volunteering at the shelter every other Saturday was Jenni's favorite hobby, a welcome respite from the demands of her studies. Little did she know this visit would introduce a special person to her life.
As Jenni set out to walk her assigned dog, she found herself sharing the lawn with a newcomer - Justin, a young Air Force serviceman who had recently transferred to the area. Standing at an impressive six feet tall, Justin had the kind of rugged good looks that can enchant any women effortlessly. His light brown hair, soft and tousled, framed a face marked by a hint of stubble. Adding a muscular physique on top of it, he definitely has a dreamy, masculine appeal. But it was Justin’s playful nature that caught Jenni’s “attention”, not his look. “Attention”, in parentheses, as in not the good kind of attention.
Back to the lawn where two young people are walking their dogs, Justin unleashes his dog in the middle of the lawn. It was the decision he made in a moment of unbridled enthusiasm, that will soon regret. His dog, Collin, promptly bounded towards Jenni after the release. Turns out he was drawn by the forgotten granola bar in her jacket pocket. The ensuing chaos quickly unfolded in a blur – her dog had left an unexpected gift on the lawn, and Jenni herself tumbled into the mess, her pristine white jacket now hopelessly stained.
As Jenni stood there, mortified, Justin rushed to her aid. His good looks couldn’t save him now, Jenni was visibly frustrated. Living in a dry cabin doesn’t make laundry an easy task is one reason to be angry. Not to mention it was the Calvin Klein jacket that her mom had gifted her for Christmas.
“Thanks for ruining my Saturday” Jenni said glaring at the dog waste clinging to her hand in disgust.
Justin got so flustered, yet he tried to remain calm. “Can I get you some coffee or something? I am sure adding some bleach to the wash will get those stains out. I can get you some if you don’t have any.” He said.
“Yea, sure, try living in a dry cabin, and see how convenient laundry is”. Jenni retorted and her voice dripped with sarcasm. “And by the way this jacket is a gift from my mom. It’s brand new and I barely wore it. How did they even train you anyway? You should have known better to keep your dog on leash.” Said by angry, frustrated, and disappointed Jenni.
“I guess anything else you do now would do more harm than good. Just look at the mess you made.” Jenni said in disappointment as she shrugged her shoulder.
Undeterred Justin responded nonchalantly: “I thought we could play fetch, I walked Collin a few times, he seemed calm and has good manners. I didn’t know he can cause such ruckus.” This further frustrated Jenni, who snapped: “Oh, you are justifying yourself right now?”
Justin didn't hesitate to talk back. "I'm not, that's just a fact!" He then made a bold move, "You know, there's a laundromat down the corner of Peger Rd and Chester Ave. I'll pay for the laundry and our coffee. I'm really curious about your dry cabin life in Alaska." His charm and flirtatious attempt were evident, and Jenni went from angry to confused, thinking, "What a weird guy..."
At that moment, the granola bar fell out of Jenni's pocket, and both dogs immediately went after it. Jenni realized she was semi-guilty in this situation. Wincing her eyes trying to look away from his face and smiling guiltily, she decided to take him up on his offer: “Yea, sure, that’s fine. But I have to leave at 2 for an evening shift”.
Jenni then washed herself up in the shelter bathroom and headed to the laundromat with Justin.
“So, were you originally from Alaska?” Justin asked Jenni curiously.
“Not quite, I was born and raised in Seattle, not very far off. I just need to run away from the family pressure. You know, the constant push to get married and everyone wants to know your dream job, but you still need more time. The nature here is very therapeutic, and the people here are very nice. So, not a bad life.” Said Jenni with ease and comfort. “How about you?” Jenni asked.
“Well, I just got here last month for an assignment with the Air Force. I want to live somewhere interesting but still within the state. So, here I am in Alaska.” Justin friendly answered.
“Cool, cool” Jenni nodded like a natural reflex; she just didn’t know a better way to respond. Notice Jenni doesn’t want to ask first, so Justin asked another question: “So, is your mom still in Seattle? You must have a lot of family in Seattle huh?”.
“Yea, my mom is still in Seattle with my dad. My big brother moved to Texas last year after getting married. Most of my mom’s family is in Seattle, but they are annoying. ” Jenni mentioned the family from her mom’s side with a big frown on her face as a sign of annoyance.
“My dad family are cool, but they live in Ireland, we video call every now and then. My dad is Irish American. I am quite lucky that my parents are still together taking into consideration the current divorce rate.” Jenni opens up a little more as she feels more comfortable with Justin.
“What about your family? Where does your family live? Any siblings?” Jenni asked.
“My mom and sister live in South Carolina. My dad is not in the picture anymore. He was a carpenter, helping his brother with construction work and stuff. My mom was a registered nurse. I tried to call my mom every week, but we weren’t that close.” Justin answered in a nonchalant monotone, which made it hard to speculate whether he was on good terms with his family. He was careful enough to only mention the good parts so it wouldn’t raise a red flag and scare Jenni away. Jenni has a few questions for Justin about his family, but they just arrived at the laundromat.
Justin's confident demeanor shone through as he extended his hand towards Jenni. "Let me take care of this, I've got it. You just sit right here on this bench, alright?" His tone conveyed the assurance of a reliable man. Without hesitation, Jenni handed over the jacket stained with dog waste, and Justin swiftly made his way to the laundromat's counter. He casually conversed with the cashier while having her soiled jacket draped over one of his arms while the other arm reached into his back pocket for his wallet. Jenni couldn’t help but giggle at the ease with which he handled the situation.
Watching this capable, good-looking man take charge of the chore, Jenni felt a flutter in her heart. The ease with which he handled the task hinted at his potential to be a reliable, family-oriented partner. Jenni found herself captivated, unable to tear her gaze away until Justin had the washer running and returned to her side.
"Shall we?" he asked, gesturing towards the door. Jenni's lips curved into a small, assertive smile. "We shall," she replied, and the two set off across the street towards the coffee shop.

Last week's post https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfhmzj/roundup_ufos_reported_on_here_last_week_countries/
Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20240428213053/https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfhmzj/roundup_ufos_reported_on_here_last_week_countries/
Moon phase waning gibbous, three days before half
Mars Right Ascension 23h 58m 10s
.1 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfhlti/i_saw_something_unusual_today/ photo, nighttime cloudy sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, flareup observed, was bright white and blinked twice with an additional red 🔴 light, then it just disappeared., vanished, brief duration 5-6 seconds, silent, over water, river, Regio Nijmegen the Netherlands 🇳🇱 elongated,possible oval-shaped, repeat visitor, I already saw near by a similar object this afternoon. Same short appearance. But it was further away and shone twice in a white metallic colour before it just ‘dissolved’.
.2 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfejk6/possible_ufo_following_a_rocket_launch_videos/ sighting description and video, near rocket launch, single light object, red 🔴, moving fast, contemporaneous report, backyard, two witnesses, low over treeline, savannah Georgia, trajectory change ,similar sighting in comments
.3 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cff7ik/what_do_you_think_this_is/ video, nighttime sky, single object multiple lights, one flashing, possible triangle 🔺️ , from car, observed stationary, possibly pacing car, Bristol England the UK 🇬🇧, red and yellow 🔴🟡, downvoted to zero
.4 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfybk7/all_the_relevant_uap_updates_from_april_2228/ information, state of disclosure USA https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfjzdo/mexican_and_peruvian_ufo_disclosure_weekly/ information, state of disclosure, Mexico and Peru
.5 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfp27v/s%C3%A3o_paulo_2024_28_april/ video, daytime sky, from car, contemporaneous report, over airport, urban area, Sao Paulo Brazil 🇧🇷, single light object, angular, reddish glow, two witnesses, elongated, vertical orientation, square ⬛️ or rectangular shape https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfoldd/is_this_a_uap_over_s%C3%A3o_paulo_airport_this_morning/ original video, link to Google drive in comments , downvoted to zero
.6 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfqcqc/help_needed_identifying_a_bright_flashing_light_i/ sighting description and video, contemporaneous report, nighttime, from car, west coast of Canada 🇨🇦, near water pacific ocean, single light object, flashing erratically or jumpy movement, diffuse, downvoted to zero
.7 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfrx1d/saw_a_large_amount_of_interesting_lights_in_the/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, fleet, contemporaneous report, urban area, Albuquerque new Mexico, low over treeline , moving slowly, horizontal trajectory, [GOODPOST]
.8 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfnvx2/last_night_in_orange_county_ca_this_is_our_second/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, repeat visitor, orange county California, contemporaneous report, two witnesses, observed moving and stationary and moving, trajectory change, brightness change, flareup and dimming, witness followed it, vanished, possible military response helicopter, Within a few minutes, a helicopter showed up and was circling the area for about 5-10 mins before leaving.
.9 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cff5in/nosy_chase video, twolights, one bright one dim, diffuse, near Monterey California, one following another, possible chase, silent
.10 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfg1p7/in_my_adventures_today_i_realized_i_was_close_to/ photo of monument, historical event, Kecksburg Pennsylvania, local residents in comments, there was an event and the military came. The large transport vehicles were in town, and it went into total lockdown relative to the period.
.11 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cfujcw/what_the_hell_is_this_noise_in_my_shed_at_2_in/ audio, at home, nighttime, whistling
.12 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cfo904/have_you_ever_had_an_experience_that_youve_been/ discussion of experiences
.13 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cfwei1/ufo_sightings_and_related_experiences/ sighting description, military, US army, southeastern Georgia, nighttime, two witnesses, single light object, triangle 🔺️, appeared out of nowhere, moving fast, similar sightings in comments
.14 https://old.reddit.com/USOS/comments/1cg5jum/green_light_near_t%C5%8Dmy%C5%8Dd%C5%8D_lighthouse_in_japan/ photo and video, single light object, underwater, green 🟢, near Tomyo-do lighthouse in Japan 🇯🇵, stationary or moving slowly, USO
.15 https://old.reddit.com/StrangeEarth/comments/1cftvb4/what_was_happening_to_this_water_or_under_it/ video, possible USO, from Coronado Island, underwater, San Diego Bay California, hottub, duration two minutes, single dark object, strange waves, two witnesses
.16 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgbu7k/my_highschool_math_teache information, high school teacher was ex airforce, USAF, I remember the smile, and he said, I can say this for sure it's a lot unknown out there .
.17 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgvzd6/any_thoughts_on_this/ photo, daytime sky, single object blackwhite, not seen by eye, Sedona Arizona, hiking, cubensphere, subsequent single light object moving erratically, link to Google drive in comments, downvoted to zero https://old.reddit.com/useSabineRittecomments/1cgyl7j/fast_mover_over_sedona_arizona/ drawing I did
.18 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgyqkd/the_bob_universal_object_tracker_software_beta/ live stream, BoB Universal Object Tracker Beta Version 1.0
.19 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgi6d0/just_saw_this_over_rockwall_texas_any_ideas/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, single light object stationary, angular, urban area, Rockwall Texas, multicolored, low over rooftop, Sirius?, similar sightings in comments , duration 30 minutes
.20 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgmduv/photos_and_video_taken_on_sunday_in_manila/ sighting description, single dark object moving erratically, two witnesses, Manila harbour the Philippines 🇵🇭
.21 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgr2oz/spherical_object_steadily_cruising_over_north/ video, daytime sky, north Zealand Denmark 🇩🇰, single light object moving fast and straight, reddish glow, possible metallic sphere, horizontal trajectory, OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy
.22 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgsgw7/what_is_this_thing/ photo and video, nighttime sky, two witnesses, single light object moving, silent, curved trajectory, floated from north to south west., at home, south of colombo Sri lanka 🇱🇰 , downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy
.23 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cgd28b/what_happened_to_the_sky_that_day/ sighting description, daytime cloudy sky, Knoxville Tennessee, I saw the sky open up almost like a tear in the sky but it was completely dark on the inside., brief duration, As quick as it happened, it closed back up., has anyone seen?, similar sightings in comments
.24 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cgelf6/i_met_god_apparently/ experience description, entity, humanoid, possible healing, communication, repeated this 3 time....As long as you have peace in your eyes and love in your heart you will be ok.
.25 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ch0z05/potentially_multiple_ufos_edgewood_nm_42924/ video, nighttime sky, fleet, repeat visitors, contemporaneous report, edgewood new Mexico, past few weeks I started to see just one random bright light in the sky. A few nights later there were two lights circling around each other. A few nights later three lights so on and so forth.
.26 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ch1x7weird_object_in_sky_castle_rock_colorado/ photos, daytime sky, single dark object, stationary observed, possibly pacing car, elongated, V-shaped or worm 🪱, plane for comparison observed, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, as the plane went to pass the object, a semi blocked my view. When we got past the semi, the object was gone, and the plane was continuing to fly. , castle rock Colorado, powerlines, low over ridgeline,
.27 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ch6ogj/plane_drone_or_ufo/ video, nighttime sky, st augustine Florida, single light object moving, multicolored, silent, repeat visitor,
.28 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ch80cf/orb_ufo_megapost_connecting_the_dots/ original compilation, single light object, characteristics, [GOODPOST], discussion of orbs
.29 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chcsul/possibly_ufos/ video, nighttime sky, threelights, line formation, angled from the horizon, from car, contemporaneous report, possibly pacing car
.30 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chd7uj/super_bright_flashing_light_and_orb_over_dc/ video and video from home security camera, nighttime sky, at home, outside bedroom window, single light object, toward the Capitol building Washington DC, smaller objects accompany it, flashing in pattern, powerlines, very bright, possibly illuminating clouds, [GOODPOST], similar sighting in comments
.31 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cho7s7/ufo_i_saw_in_my_backyard/ video, nighttime sky, threelights, close triangle formation, horizontal orientation, horizontal trajectory, low over rooftop, silent, at home, backyard, emotional reaction shock and happiness https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chocey/moving_white_orb/ same OP, different event, video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, low over treeline, tuskegee alabama, satellite?
.32 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chpq8v/freinds_video_of_ufo/ video, possible metapod type, daytime
.33 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chf798/disappearing_lights_over_oconee_county_ga/ sighting description, fleet, appearing and vanishing, plane for comparison observed, possible interaction with airplane, they were waiting for the airspace to clear before doing anymore shenanigans. All of a sudden no activity for a couple minutes, then a plane would fly overhead and once he cleared the airspace it would start right back up., contemporaneous report, Oconee County Georgia, nighttime, duration 10 minutes , trajectory change, one light travel from left to right come to stop for a second and then proceed to travel back in the opposite direction right to left, moving and stationary and moving, brightness change, flareup and dimming, additional single light object low below treeline, possible animal reaction coyotes going crazy and neighbors dogs barking insane right at the time of peak activity.
.34 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cgw198/april_27_2am_star_split/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, just off I5 Los Banos California, single light object, lighting configuration change, splitting, twolights, one stationary and one moving, repeat visitor, downvoted to zero https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chirrg/april_28th_los_banos_ca/ same OP, the next day, video, nighttime, [GOODPOST], threelights, triangle formation, flying in formation, similar sighting same area in comments
.35 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chj6ot/strange_lights_over_worcester_ma_usa/ sighting description, nighttime, duration 20 minutes, witness followed it, from car, fleet, threelights, from car, Worcester Massachusetts, possible formation change, flying pretty high up when the lights appeared more clustered, and when flying low the lights appeared more linear, silent, circling, it was making large circles above the city. , moving slowly, jumpy movement, when I looked away for a bit it looked like it was off in the distance further than I would expect for how slow it was. There was a red 🔴 light, but no discernible green light. I think there was a blinking white light., downvoted to zero
.36 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chjolg/was_it_a_ufo/ sighting description, southwest Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦, single light object, orange 🟠, trail formed, stationary and moving, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, when I looked back it was gone. I kept looking at the sky to see it and I could faintly see it moving in and out of view, there were no clouds I don’t think but it was faint as it moved out of view around the house., disappeared behind rooftops
.37 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chkcc2/ufo_sighting_in_vienna/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, urban area, Floridsdorfer Markt Vienna Austria 🇦🇹 , single light object moving, possible trajectory change, satellite?
.38 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ch2mqq/i_had_several_strange_and_terrifying_experiences/ childhood experience description, possible abduction, near Naples Italy 🇮🇹, entities, inside bedroom, repeat visitors, at home, nighttime, witness woke up, fleet, inside bedroom, stationary, These lights were green-ish in color, had the most bizarre shapes, and were slightly fluorescent. , emotion of fear, physical effects goosebumps and paralysis, hyperventilated and started sweating profusely., possible men in black response to telling the story on Reddit, [GOODPOST]
.39 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1chrgft/what_is_it_ufo/ photo, nighttime sky, single light object, trail, haze, curved trajectory, Samara Russia 🇷🇺, rocket launch?
.40 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1chir0j/fast_uap_passing_sta video, nighttime sky, single dim object moving fast
.41 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ch44dd/for_people_who_experience_way_too_many_tech_issues/ discussion of humans causing electronic effects
.42 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chuvn5/this_is_a_recreation_has_anyone_seen_something/ video recreation of sighting description, nighttime, brief duration, jumpy movement, plane-shaped, had no dimension to it. It looked more like an image than a physical object. , has anyone seen?, white-blueish, over water, Manahawkin bay new jersey, https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chw8e6/repost_this_is_a_recreation_has_anyone_seen/ reposted
.43 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1chvyjw/completely_stationary_hovering_silver_sphere_nea sighting description, has anyone seen?,single light object, metallic sphere, stationary, reaction to being observed, vanishing, repeat visitor, made two passes, electronic effects camera can't detect it, I tried to get a better view with my eyes and poof it seriously just vanished. , near USAF, DMAFB, tuscon Arizona
.44 https://old.reddit.com/Experiencers/comments/1ch845u/my_experience_with_a_blue_jellyfish_object_as_a/ childhood sighting description or dream, at home, nighttime, near water, reservoir, witness woke up, light shining in bedroom window, golden, single object irregular shape, blue 🔵, gigantic flying jellyfish 🪼 with rings of rotating smoky tentacles. The inner ring dropped down and rotated around the surface of the water. the jellyfish was taking on water., dull, sort of golden titanium looking, mirror-type panels that would distort everything in the field of view as they passed., emotional reaction shock, communication, "This is nothing. You should go back to bed.", saw something I wasn't supposed to., compelled to go to sleep, [GOODPOST]
.45 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ci995p/high_altitude_ufo_sightings/ sighting descriptions, repeat visitors, Washington state, single light object moving, pulsating, trajectory change, subsequent single light object moving fast, wavy trajectory, subsequent single light object, trajectory change, contemporaneous report, has anyone seen?
.46 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cij45u/what_is_this_thing_floating_over_bali_indonesia/ photo, nighttime cloudy sky, single dark object, irregular shape, vertical orientation, stationary, duration 30 minutes, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, urban area, Bali Indonesia 🇮🇩, kite?
.47 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cigpvb/what_could_this_be/ video, nighttime sky, from home security camera, electronic effects motion detection, northern Wisconsin,single light object moving, descending below treeline, illuminating trees
.48 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ci471l/what_are_these_flashing_red_lights/ sighting description and video, nighttime sky, single light object, green 🟢, flashing erratically, repeat visitor, I keep seeing a green light in my neighbors backyard, always around 5:30am, when there are typically no lights back there. , Kalamazoo Michigan
.49 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ci1v99/took_a_flight_42924_saw_uap/ sighting description and reference image, from airplane, east coast USA, daytime, single light object, metallic sphere, moving fast, I saw a metal sphere fly fast, really fast, past and slightly above the airplane going to opposite direction we were flying., possible porthole, similar sightings in comments
.50 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cijlvt/my_wife_took_this_pic_last_yea photo, nighttime sky, threelights, triangle formation, low over treeline, near airport
.51 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1chvltt/ive_seen_a_ufo_sighting_today/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, from airplane, from Birmingham the UK 🇬🇧 to Seville Spain 🇪🇸, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, possible interaction with airplane, witness felt observed, large black object in the clouds. It was tall and rectangular and then kind of went on its side and became thin and wide and flew off away from us., two witnesses
.52 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cin2lh/my_terrifying_true_childhood_story_a_ufo_turns/ childhood sighting description, Goole in East Yorkshire the UK 🇬🇧, at home, nighttime, witness woke up, flying saucer, outside bedroom window, also had several small bright lights spinning around as it moved in the sky., single object multiple lights, rotating, audio description faint humming sound., event amnesia, For whatever reason however, I quickly forgot about what I saw that night ., repeat visitor or second object, daytime, multiple witnesses, single object, disk shape, approach, flew overhead, emotion of fear in other witnesses, left the area, When I look back to what I think is a "UFO", all of a sudden what I'm seeing isn't a flying saucer, but an RAF fighter jet flying dangerously low before it quickly turns and flies away. , mimicking airplane, similar sighting in comments, [GOODPOST] https://old.reddit.com/ufouk/comments/1cin9sh/my_terrifying_true_childhood_story_a_ufo_turns/ reference images
.53 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cinow3/heres_a_compilation_of_cases_where_ufos_used/ original compilation, historical events, light beams, bending or pulling
.54 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cipk67/what_could_it_be/ video, hard to see , spotlights type
.55 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cipw6p/what_is_this/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, diffuse, spiral trail, rocket launch?, Finland 🇫🇮, similar sighting in comments from Sweden 🇸🇪 and Poland 🇵🇱 , https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ciq28y/now_from_ukraine/ Ukraine 🇺🇦
.56 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cistzk/ufos_filmed_in_natick_massachusetts/ video, nighttime sky, fleet, Pagan Hill in Natick Massachusetts, two witnesses, contemporaneous report, red, submission statement issues, removed
.57 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjbmdn/top_left/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, splitting, submission statement issues
.58 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cj2il1/ufo_info_from_sighting_10_years_ago/ sighting description, downvoted to zero, nighttime, two witnesses, single light object, blue 🔵, approach, moving fast and stationary overhead, possibly rotating, doing sort of a twirl motion., physical effects paralysis, transfixed, emotion of fear and awe, sudden departure upward, zoomed out of view slightly angled and up into the sky going from its original shape to a dot that disappeared into darkness as it went further and faster away., witnesses left the area, we immediately ran back down the driveway to his house. The sense of fear and dread was very real.Near the Devil's Tramping ground in North Carolina, silent
.59 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cisc8c/unshared_footage_of_2021_canadian_sighting/ sighting description, Richmond British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦, nighttime, observed moving and stationary and moving, flareup or size change,
.60 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cj3icg/ufo_caught_in_waterloo_ny_may_1st_2024/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, horizontal trajectory, moving slowly, plane for comparison, waterloo new York state
.61 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cj7x9u/if_this_alien_abduction/ experience description, possible abduction, physical effects pain
.62 https://old.reddit.com/StrangeEarth/comments/1ciymal/strange_light/ experience description and video, no craft, from home security camera, single flash, illuminating trees, from the sky in front of me I got hit with a white/bluish laser for a split second, brief duration
.63 https://old.reddit.com/UFOB/comments/1cisg7c/taken_in_upstate_ny_today/ photo, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, single dark object, elongated, plane for comparison, angled from the horizon, upstate new York state,
.64 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1cicotduring_flight_what_is_this_discshaped_cloud/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, from airplane, cloud anomaly, disk shape
.65 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1ciawdu/may_1_silent_lighting_storm_south_us/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, diffuse light flashing erratically, silent, lightning anomaly , southern USA
.66 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjfj7k/i_know_this_isnt_a_ufo_but_i_would_really_like_to/ photos, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, airplane anomaly, Richmond Virginia, 2 very, very large rings, with an airplane/jet going straight up. It was going faster than any plane I've seen go across the sky., powerlines, duration 5 minutes
.67 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cje9ei_saw_a_ufo_when_i_was_13_now_21_and_i_used_ai_to/ sighting description and drawing, single dark object, jellyfish 🪼, dark black "ballish" drone flying towards me., approach, flew overhead, audio description humming sound, It had tentacles coming out of it. , I saw them expand and contract individually., downvoted to zero
.68 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjla34/kinross_plane_sighting/ sighting description and reference image, airplane anomaly, from car, contemporaneous report, daytime, highway 61 about an hour north of Duluth Minnesota, low over water, lake superior, I saw this plane hovering about 300ft above ground, just offshore over the water, single object, stationary, mimicking airplane, The props were not even moving., two witnesses, emotional reaction freaked out, overwhelmed, shock, Pupils really dilated, couldn't control my body temp, lots of frantic pacing., historical event, Kinross incident, dark green RCAF C47 Dakota., [GOODPOST], silent
.69 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjn0qo/any_idea_what_this_light_could_have_been/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, fourlights, diffuse, spotlights type, splitting, circling, merging, long Island New York state, observed duration 2 minutes, felt compelled to look up, something told me to look up and it was very gloomy., felt like something huge was above the clouds projecting these lights.,
.70 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjqfc7/oc_i_wasnt_going_to_post_this_but_it_just_looks/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, low over rooftop, elongated, vertical orientation, observed descending, jellyfish 🪼 or squid 🐙 , bountiful Utah, at home , [GOODPOST] , three witnesses
.71 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cjv2da/day_of_the_eclipse_njny/ photos, daytime cloudy sky, eclipse day, multiple objects, dark, moving fast, new jersey , downvoted to zero, video analysis requested
.72 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck2whw/is_this_a_balloon/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, irregular shape, possible star 🌟 shaped, wobbling, descending below rooftop, balloon 🎈?, urban area, Upper East Side NYC New York state, contemporaneous report, duration 30 seconds https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck3rf8/is_this_a_ballon/ reposted
.73 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cjnqfk/my_experience_with_the_marfa_lights_the_entities/ sighting description, three witnesses, Marfa Lights, Marfa Texas, single red 🔴 light blinking., lighting configuration change to threelights, line formation, vertical orientation, appeared out of nowhere , Then directly below it another red light starts pulsating. Then a third until there's 3 lights in a vertical row pulsating, Then they go solid red. And slowly start to hover in all directions. Then fade in and out. , appearing and vanishing, formation change, color change, multicolored, splitting, duration 2 hours, emotional reaction shock, paralysis, transfixed, I was jaw dropped in shock. I had a camera. I'm a professional cinematographer. And I never lifted my camera., felt compelled to look, something told me to "listen" and not document., sudden departure, all 5 lights quickly shot into a horizontal line and turned blue. Then they faded away., apathy in other witness, witness followed it, fleet observed, witness went to sleep, subsequent entities, inside bedroom, At the edge of the bed, was standing 3 tall silhouettes of skinny long, big headed entities. , emotion of fear, sudden departure, repeat visitors, human initiated contact, similar sightings in comments, [GOODPOST]
.74 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cjw9ks/im_gonna_just_leave_this_right_hererandomly_found/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, single object blackwhite, not seen by eye, possible disk shape with dome, urban area, powerlines, near water Atlantic Ocean, Freeport Grand bahama The Bahamas 🇧🇸
.75 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck4214/october_26th_2022/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, Kennewick Washington state, single light object flashing in pattern, low below treeline, possible single object multiple lights, stationary
.76 https://old.reddit.com/Thetruthishere/comments/1cjzedo/clown_doll_in_my_ceiling_talking_to_me/ childhood sighting description, entity, repeat visitor, at home, inside bedroom, communication
.77 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck60dj/is_that_a_weather_baloon/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, splitting, twolights, rotating around each other, plane for comparison, contemporaneous report, urban area, Vienna Austria 🇦🇹
.78 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck6di0/strange_lights_at_the_hollywood_bowl_last_night/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, two witnesses, Hollywood California, single light object, loops, doing something similar to a figure 8 movement, has anyone seen?
.79 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ck9b1y/what_is_that/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, single light object, multicolored, contemporaneous report, urban area, st Petersburg Florida, low over rooftop , near water, gulf of Mexico, possible smaller objects accompany it, as I zoomed in that video I noticed three black dots that seemed to be hovering over the flashing circle in which would become distorted., Sirius?
.80 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ckaznc/whats_this/ photo, daytime sky, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, horizontal trajectory, northwestern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦, duration 10 minutes, downvoted to zero in 27 minutes,
.81 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ckb8xo/something_spotted_in_north_london_today/ video, daytime cloudy sky, contemporaneous report, urban area, North London England the UK 🇬🇧, single light object, flickering, vanishing, plane for comparison observed
.82 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ckbept/are_those_stars/ video recreation of sighting description, nighttime, from car, unusual route, anomalous silence, two witnesses, Utah, fleet, formation change, sudden departure downward, the formation of stars began to move, they would condense and expand in the space between them. Then, in an instant, they flew down to the earth below.
.83 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1ck93y3/meteor_captured_last_night_3rd_may_2024_by/ photo, nighttime sky, single light object moving fast, angled from the horizon, meteor?, plane for comparison
.84 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ckcb2y/object_id_help/ video, nighttime sky, Panamint Valley California, three witnesses, single light object, appeared out of nowhere, yellow 🟡, crescent 🌙 shape, approach, flew overhead, color change to white, flareup, diffuse, haze, The light appeared as semicircular “wings” on either side, with gaps in front of and behind of the object., moving fast, silent, vanishing and reappearing, lighting configuration change, the bright lights were in a ring shape,,SpaceX?
.85 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ckpybw/2013_middle_of_nowhere_texas/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, powerlines, fleet or single object multiple lights, horizontal orientation, powerlines, at home, backyard, south of San Antonio Texas, appeared out of nowhere, brief duration, vanishing, line of light appears and lasts only a brief moment. It looked like they “glistened?” in and out.,
.86 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ckl5iv/this_appears_regularly_hoping_its_a_drone_nz_btw/ photo, nighttime sky, repeat visitor, new zealand 🇳🇿, single light object, low over treeline,
.87 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cklvx8/planehelicopter_2nd_light/ video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, descending at an angle, plane for comparison, urban area
.88 https://old.reddit.com/atoptics/comments/1ckr8rx/black_vertical_line_in_sky/ video, daytime cloudy sky, cloud anomaly, vertical contrail, dark, contemporaneous report, Bath England the UK 🇬🇧

Media roundup for Portland Charlotte. It’s pretty grim folks, but keep reading for some bonus Diego Valeri content and unexpected Spanish punditry on Jonathan Rodriguez.

PORTLAND:
Joel Odom / Oregonian: After Portland Timbers are shut out at Charlotte, coach says changes coming (Paywalled, but I’ve created a gift link using my subscription.)
“The Portland Timbers’ winless streak extended to eight games Saturday as Charlotte FC shut out the Timbers for a 2-0 victory.
… Timbers coach Phil Neville did not hold back after the game in expressing frustration in the effort he saw from his team.
“I’m probably as angry as I’ve ever been as the Portland Timbers coach,” Neville told reporters. “That performance was unacceptable. The goals that we conceded were unacceptable. And I think I’ve been here for 11 games now and it’s pretty obvious that something needs to change. I take full responsibility. I probably should have done it sooner, but there will be changes now.”
Neville went on to call the goals the Timbers conceded “embarrassing” and said he thought his club got “bullied” somewhat in both the midfield and up front.
“I’m absolutely convinced that we can get it right, but what I would say is that today was probably as bad as I’ve seen,” Neville said. “No composure on the ball, no composure and confidence.” …

Sam Svilar / Stumptown Footy: Portland Timbers 0, Charlotte FC 2 - Instant Reaction
“The Portland Timbers’ first ever matchup with Charlotte FC was an absolute dud, as Portland fell to defeat by a margin of 2-0 in North Carolina. Nikola Petkovic scored in the 54th minute for the hosts, and Enzo Copetti added the clincher in second half stoppage-time. For the first time since March, the Timbers could not find the back of the net.
…
On the whole of how flat the Timbers looked all game, this was their worst performance of the season. The vaunted goal-scoring that had saved them on so many occasions this season finally went cold, and the defense that has made so many mistakes all season continued to be sub-par and lackluster. The three-game road trip, which had started with such promise in Columbus, ends in just a single point for Portland. …”

Jeremy Peterman/Cascadia FC: A Tall Glass of Bleach
“…I struggle to find an accurate description of the first half. Charlotte had a couple of chances, and they missed all of them. But what the Timbers were doing did not resemble soccer in the slightest. Even commentators Neil Sika and Lloyd Sam were befuddled by the Timbers’ stagnant approach to this game. It resembled a group of individuals that have never played together, even though all of the players on the pitch (minus Jonathan Rodriguez) have been on this team for at least two years.
…
This is the first certified Timbers stinker of 2024, and good God it was a bad one. But results like this will increase pressure on the players who aren’t on the bus, and hopefully they will get back on it. If they don’t, their time in Portland is probably over. Next week is the game that everyone has to wake up for. Last season, the Timbers laid a comparable egg in Vancouver. The following week, they embarrassed their biggest foes in exhilarating fashion. Can a similar performance follow next Sunday? The heat is officially on the players (not the coach) more than ever before, and they will have to respond.”

BONUS: Donald Orr / OPB: Former Portland Timbers star Diego Valeri on the future of Major League Soccer (click for audio and more)
Orr: You’re a beloved player among Portland Timbers fans and across the league — you’re lovingly called ‘El Maestro!’ So what has your time with the team meant to you?
Valeri: Portland became my second home, actually. I’m still living there, my family loves the city, loves the club. My daughter grew up in Portland. I’m still involved with the club, with the city. I became a Portlander — it’s my house.
Orr: You’re still rooted in Portland, and you recently announced that you’d be an assistant coach for a community-owned club in the city. What do you hope to pass along to the next generation of players as you transition into coaching?
Valeri: First and foremost, you always try to give resources based on your experience and try to compete and develop — individually and collectively. Obviously I want [to] always be involved in the city, with the community through PDX [Football Club]. But I’m enjoying it a lot, doing it with Jorge Villafaña, [who] is a former teammate and it’s great. But basically it’s about that — to give more resources to the young people that’s coming to play the game in Portland and make them better. ... (there's plenty more)

• "Enough is enough. Our supporters deserve better" Phil Neville talks after loss to Charlotte
• "The attitude is what we're missing right now" Cristhian Paredes after loss to Charlotte
• BONUS: Timbers 360 on KGW had a nice tribute to Chara on Friday

NATIONAL:
Sam Jones/MLS Daily Kickoff
“Charlotte were never uncomfortable in this one as goals from Nikola Petkovic and Enzo Copetti (!) guided them to a straightforward home win. The Crown has a totally acceptable 14 points through 11 games. Portland have 10 through 11 and have allowed 23 goals. Neither of these teams are particularly inspiring but at least Charlotte can defend consistently.”

Wilson Florez / La Opinion: “Jonathan Rodríguez experiences his move to the MLS with bitterness”
Translated from Spanish:
“Club América had the heavy departure of Jonathan Rodríguez in March of this year. Although the azulcrema team fell in the Concachampions, those led by André Jardine still have a good chance of winning the Clausura 2024. But “Cabecita” has not had the same fortune in the United States.
… The data is stark: in all the games in which Jonathan Rodríguez has played, Portland Timbers have not been able to win. In total, “Cabecita” has played six games with the MLS team.
..
14 clubs participate in the Western Conference. Portland Timbers are in 11th position with 10 points accumulated so far this season. So far, Rodríguez's strategy is not working. It is evident that poor collective performance affects his individual performance. The Copa América is just around the corner and “Cabecita” has not yet taken off with his team in the United States.”

• AI Bot / AP: Nikola Petkovic scores first MLS goal to help Charlotte beat Timbers 2-0
• Field Level Media: Charlotte FC blank Timbers to stay hot at home

Comment if you have other resources, blogs, youtube channels, or posts that I should include.
Phantom time

• ! archive Fomenko New chronology complete set
• ! Glitch in the matrix or parallel of history
• !A synopsis of Phantom Time theory in my own words. A short introduction to the work of Anatoly Fomenko
• The world fairs were used as an excuse to demolish America's ancient architectural heritage.
• Ottonian Empire vs Ottoman Empire. The truth about the Siege of Vienna and when did the Roman Empire really fall.
• The Star Fort conspiracy. Some star forts are called "Batteries" why is that?
• The little known "Woman's holocaust" was part of a larger cultural genocide in the 16th and 17th centuries when the old knowledge was wiped out.
• Renowned brain surgeon Dr. Leonard Shlain stumbles into the cultural layer by accident and gives up medicine to become a historian when he realizes our history has been stolen. \(Skip intro 2:19\)
• The mysterious origin of Saint Petersburg. Impossible engineering marvels prove our history has been stolen.
• The linchpin of why phantom time exists. No old books exist! Only dishonestly copied and "corrected" books are used to support the official history. When genuinely old books surface they often contradict the official history and are ignored by the mainstream historians.
• [Introduction to the world wide culture that used to exist prior to modernism that was subsequently deleted by historians. \(Sylvie Ivanowa narrator\](https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/7zvfri/introduction_to_the_world_wide_culture_that_used/)
• The Fate of the "1000 cities of Bactria," Kingdom of Buddhist Greeks. Probable gap in history. Kingdom mysterious disappears only to reappear under a different name when 1,748,000 people died in one hour according to some legends.
• Scythian/Bactrian gold
• American Scythians
• History's greatest con job: the life of Genghis Khan is a work of fiction largely made up by one man named Baavuday Tsend Gun in 1908
• Origins and Spread of the Mongoloid Race
• [Sir Isaac Newton: The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, Amended \[PDF\](https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/8569t4/sir_isaac_newton_the_chronology_of_ancient/)
• The oldest "clock" in Britain at Wells Cathedral could prove phantom history true.
• ! New Chronology by Nosovskiy and Fomenko Philipp Druzhinin
• ! The cemetery of "longevity" In Turkey ...

Anomalous Soil Accumulation

• Gondola unearthed at Lucknow’s 220-year-old Chhatar Manzil
• The cultural layer above more thousand years Roman villa has grown by only a meter, while the cultural layer of the century and a half building has grown by several meters
• "The chapel provides evidence of Myra’s swift entombment. If the sediment had built up gradually, the upper portions should show more damage."
• Bauman Street, Kazan Russia
• The original streets and houses can be found under present-day Prague *Istanbul Gate Nicaea
• Buried bridge Orel Russia
• Mosaic floor city of Er Rastan Syria
• Buried Barcelona
• ! Apocalypse of the 19th century. The true story of genocide
• the post catastrophe world of Piranesi
• Scratching the surface of the Indian "Cultural Layer"
• The full US capitol building exposed.
• Deadwood Underground
• How Shakespeare Drained Venice- The Merchant of Venice contains not a solitary reference to gondolas or canals, and nor does Othello * [Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, Coimbra, Portugal - c1954 vs now \(Excavated\](https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/c72qkh/monastery_of_santa_claraavelha_coimbra_portugal/)
• ! [Anomalous Soil Accumulation \(Large album\](https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/b8sqw5/anomalous_soil_accumulation_large_album/)
• "Polytechnical Museum" Moscow
• Grant street Hump District excavation:Pittsburgh "1900s"
• Buried Russian Churches; A Look Inside
• The Whitehouse is buried in the cultural layer. On August 24th 1814 Washington DC was sacked by the British and then saved by tornadoes. The storm buried the Whitehouse in mud up to the 2nd level.
• What is under the Washington Monument? An ancient structure resembling a Mayan Pyramid. It was excavated in the 1800s and buried under cement.
• The Arch of Septimius Severus
• Buried Copenhagen part 1
• mudflood in grand rapids michigan
• mud flood in ann arbor mi
• mud flood in holland mi
• In case you're curious, this is one of the ways they employ to sink buildings. Turning the ground into a kind of quick sand and the weight of the building just pulls it down. W their earthquake weapons I imagine they can make entire cities go mudflood.
• Soil accumulation in Ancient Sardis, Turkey - From an excavation in 1911 - (credit: u/Philipp-Dr and Stolenhistory.org - links in comments)
• a collection of capriccio paintings
• Officially In the 13th century people poured 7 meters of dirt over the whole of Prague. Should we do the math? Where is the logic?
• Greek Floor Mosaic uncovered in 2014 in Turkey near Syrian Border
• 4 albums containing hundreds of examples showing an anomalous build up of soil and the necessary re-modeling.
• Moscow in early 1800's oil paintings , everything is overgrown with vegetation
• Napoleon in Moscow paintings
• The Town of Rockwell, Texas
• ! At some point in time, possibly between 1875 and 1905, Chattanooga built up its roads and abandoned the first stories of the buildings in the downtown of the city, turning them into basements. Today, no one knows exactly why or how it happened
• Old Bayfield County Courthouse, Wisconsin built c.1896
• Chichen Itza
• Castle filled with dirt
• Unburying Rome - Italy
• Observing the cultural layer of the Ipatiev House \("Romanov murder house"\)
• Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park, old resivoir walls.
• Church of St Sofia, Bulgaria
• Mysterious tunnels discovered in Florida
• Mud flood in the 19th century?
• Omaha Mud Flood: St. Mary Magdalene Church 1920 transformation
• Ancient rail-road tracks unearthed
• An interesting take on the history of canals and "train" Tunnels: Could they hint at something greater?
• "A side walk, curbing and all, found several feet under the surface"-Asheville North Carolina (repost)

Egypt

• Change my view: The floral wreath found in king Tuts tomb is not 2000 years old.
• The Great Tutankhamen Hoax
• til; aerial photography is illegal in Egypt.
• Graffiti and chronology of vintage Egyptian photographs

Europe

• ! Were wars originally more similar to a sports event?
• The Medieval London Bridge \(the one with all the buildings on top of it\) being destroyed. Notice the megalithic blocks?
• Bank of England in ruins by Joseph Gandy
• [The language of the Roman Empire](https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/8jtv93/the_language_of_the_roman_empire/)

Asia

• Discussion; is Japan as we know it a fabrication?
• Utsuro-bune
• Ainu/Japan general discussion

North America

• Thousands of years ago a 'Mystery Culture' dug a massive network of tunnels, cavities, and chambers beneath the city of Teotihuacan. The exact purpose of this ancient underground system of tunnels and chambers continues to elude scholars.
• A man takes very close look at a wall.
• Megalithic structure in Jersey City is 6 times wider than the great wall of China and weighs more than the Great Pyramid in Giza
• The ethereal staircase of Loretto Chapel
• The mysterious helix staircase of the Loretto Chapel in Sante Fe, New Mexico; allegedly built by a mysterious man in the 1870s from an unknown species of wood with no nails and without any obvious means of structural support)
• Toronto
• What do y'all think is goin on with the top of this building?

Russia

• Anomalous Polygonal Masonry in the small town of Chusovoy , Sverdlovskaya District, Russia
• Bathtub \(granite: 196 cm, 152 cm, 53 cm\) m made for tsar Alexander I, Russia 19th c.\[705x555\]
• ! In a bombed out shed south of St Petersburg lies the Tsar bath, weighing nearly 100,000 lbs and standing 6 foot tall it is perhaps the largest single granite work outside of ancient Egypt.
• Moscow 1867 -- Where are the people???
• The empty streets of Saint Petersburg in the 1860s - where is everyone?
• Finding hints in the official narative. "Garðaríki"

American civil War

• Is General Robert E Lee dead in this 1865 photo
• American civil war strangeness continued

People/Pseudo characters

• General Robert E. Lee astride
• In 1819 English academic Richard Whately wrote a book questioning the Napoleon myth.
• Fake Rasputin
• What in the ever-loving fuck is going on with this photograph?
• TIL: Richard Wagners Grandson Wieland claimed that he was molested By Hitler

Archeology

• Çatalhöyük and international relations
• Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
• How ancient Greek columns were made: photographer Bonfils inadvertently filmed the technology of building ancient columns by ancient Athenians
• [Hagia Sophia is built on the foundation of an older temple, that is built on the foundation of an even o older temple.
• Year AD J775 ?? Year J788 ? Gravestones in a cemetery in Stratford, CT
• Is it or only me or this structure looks like the frame of an very modern building?
• Mexican temple of Santiago, master builder monks and our failed archaeology

Architecture

• ! "Antique World". Alternative title; "Grand unified architectural style"
• Grand Unified Architectural Style: Antique Africa
• Our architectural heritage restored to it's former glory only after the retreat of the Reds from East Germany.

Technology

• Cast-iron flooring in ancient temples.
• The Autoped was an early motorized scooter
• ! Embed Metallurgical technology that allows create medieval knight’s armor appeared in the industrial era
• ! Is it possible free energy was once a reality ? Or another form of energy transfer at least?
• Interesting analogy
• Free energy capacitors in Bangladesh Mohenjo Daro nuclear strike, just not 3000 years ago.
• Mechanical fish and swan from the 1700s in simulated water of moving glass. Such intricate craftsmanship we cannot reproduce today. The people of the past were much smarter than us. This is technology from the phantom era historians erased from existence.* Despite the general consensus antique corsets were and are not oppressive torture contraptions, but instead highly technical devices that correct posture, and positively effect spine heath.
• We have been lied to about the capabilities, techniques and reasoning of our ancestors.
• 439 year old reservoir dam, outlasts its modern counterparts
• Lets talk about classical architecture. And other global architectural phenomenon, polygonal masonry, impossible craftsmanship, and strange metallic elements
• Steel staircase? Encased in marble?
• Why London Underground is nicknamed "The Tube" The electric city of the 1800s. What powered their electric cars?
• Granite polygons of Kronstadt \(not a single structure within the city is built with granite\)
• Vorontsov palace, window frames hewed from a single piece of ultra hard diabase stone using crude iron hand tools?
• The medici lions at Vorontsov palace. Peculiar holes...
• a collection of lesser known yet stunningly detailed sculptures
• Staglieno Graveyard, Most Beautiful Cemetery in Italy and possibly the world
• Steel beams in antiquities?
• In electronics, porcelain \(and ceramic derivatives\) is widely used for insulating material due to its excellent non-conductivity.
• Anointing oil and oriental wellness. Part 2 Alt title: "Traces of technologically advanced society in east Asia"
• The Ancient Airfield Yundum
• The 100 year old Russian warship still in service.
• Lets talk polygonal masonry

Giants

• ! Skeletons of unusual growth in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
• Peculiar Decorations Of The Medici
• let's find out where the Boyers in Russia came from. Boyar coat -large cloaks of honor passed down through the generations.
• Giant Skeletons in old etchings
• Continuing the theme of mythological creatures representing true creatures.
• giants on the streets of european cities
• giant roman shoe
• giants in the picture of leonardo da vinci*Boyars as decedents of Hyperborean giants; A growth of around 2.5 meters as indicated by the length of inherited clothing.

Religion

• Parallels between Shinto and Judaism
• Catholics versus Cathars, or how the Cat-lovers competed with the Cat-worshipers

Geography

• Samandar, the second capital of Khazaria thought to have been destroyed 1000 years ago, was marked on European maps of 300 years ago at the site of modern Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan
• Judia is the ancient capital of Thailand. Maps and engravings show this
• Lakes Urmia and Van were connected on the old mapsThe medieval ‘New England’: a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast
• Australia could be something else...
• ! Continent of North America does not exist... or could it be a part of Asia?
• 17 maps of the World, Poland, Italy, Rome, Northern Europe and Germany \(1557-65\)
• 17th Cent. map \(Willem Blaeu\) indicates Tartarians settled in N. America
• why would maps of Africa from 1800's show more uncharted territory than those made in 1500's?
• Pompeii on maps from 1570?
• Clear evidence for the supposition that Giovanni Battista Piranesi was recording what he saw in the minutest detail and was not illustrating fantasy as is often claimed* Old newspaper articles on Chilaga
• Legendary city of Norumbega: could it be Washington, DC?
• Kings of Florida, and vanished white Native American Kingdoms
• ! [Ruins of Old Earth \(Schoenung\)

Meta

• ! StolenHistory.gov

Miscellaneous

• The purposefully forgotten crucifixion of the Antean king Boz
• Three Remarkable and Calamitous Travels through Italy, Greece, Livonia, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East India, Japan and various other Districts
• https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/lwcuoc/the_unrivalled_maestro_tito_livio_burattini/
• Sultan Suleiman and King Solomon
• The most unusual icons of the “Holy Trinity”
• The Prussian school: all power to the canon
• 114 years ago: Mammoth Recovered from Northern Siberia
• Why Are There Underground Jesuit Caves in Europe Filled with Egyptian and Islamic Art?
• Inconvenient questions about the war; Just a few queries the world should answer before we do it all once more
• TIL: The basic outline of history taught to every child in America since the mid 1900s was written by prominent communist and science fiction writer H.G Wells in his "The Outline of History"
• Blackened cityscapes of the world
• American cars with their soviet twins. Is there something weird here or is it just me?

Symbolism

• Smithsonian logo

Resources

• ! https://www.davidrumsey.com/
• ! archive Fomenko New chronology complete set
• Best Of CulturalLayer And Resource Guide, Amended- Again
• best links about cultural layer theory?
• Anatoly Fomenko - New Chronology - History; fiction or science? -- A fascinating Russian attempt \(playlist, English subtitles\) at seeking clarity through the distortions of modern "history"
• collection of images i've gathered depicting south american sites before or during their excavation or "reconstruction"
• Huge archive of StaBastion Fort images/pics/designs \(useful resource\)
• "Declassified photos from U2 planes are helping archaeologists unlock the past
• starforts.com
• starforts.org

Heavily moderated

• stolenhistory.net
• stolenhistory.org

Defunct
www.wildheretic.commegaliths.org
Wikipedia

• New chronology (Fomenko))
• Phantom time conspiracy theory
• ! Vérendrye stone (" Jesuit priests concluded that it was written in "Tatarian" writing."..."The Minnesota Historical Society has offered a $1000 reward for the stone's rediscovery.")
• ! Invention Secrecy Act \(1951\)
• Ringwoodite is notable for being able to contain hydroxide ions \(oxygen and hydrogen atoms bound together\) Combined with evidence of its occurrence deep in the Earth's mantle, this suggests that there is from one to three times the world ocean's equivalent of water in the mantle transition zone.
• Hyperdiffusionism
• According to local folklore, the region was inhabited by Caeté Indians, who woke up one day to find their town covered by sand
• Gunnar Heinsohn
• Vitrified fort
• star forts
• Polygonal masonry
• ionic wind
• Sharing this wikipedia page to illustrate how, with the right eye, you can pick apart an mainstream article and get at the meat of whats been hidden.

other subs

• tartarianarchitecture
• Tartaria
• alternativeastronomy mudfossils
• Thunderbolts
• plasmacosmology historicalstreetview
• fringehub
• newchronology
• AlternativeAstronomy
• AlternativeHistory

defunct
homogiganticus
Youtube channels

• New earth
• Wise Up
• Cognitive TV \(russian\)
• Philipp Druzhinin
• CONSPIRACY-R-US
• Deciphering The Devil's Details
• baltimore fats
• Static in the attic
• streets of tartaria
• Colm Gibney
• jon levi

Defunct

• jacksfan
• Curious Life
• Nik research
• Mud Flood Mystery North

Missing/lost and found

• Tartaria Territory or Empire - Mudflood channel we miss youUzbekistan and Maps of Tartaria
• Mudflood channel we miss you

* posting livejournals in the comments

The Chelsea FC Women April round-up - (double) semi-final heartbreak, but the Blues battle on

Welcome to the seventh Chelsea FC Women monthly round-up of the 2023/24 season.
These reviews are posted on a monthly basis throughout the season, and feature a summary of the exploits of Emma Hayes' Chelsea side, as well as a brief preview of the month ahead.
(This post is a long read, so feel free to skip to the end for the summary!)

Introduction

March had ended for Chelsea with a gutting loss in extra time of the Conti Cup final - meaning our quadruple hopes were at an end, but we still had three trophies left to fight for.
"Fight" being the operative word - it has been a grind of a season for Chelsea, between fixture congestion and significant injuries to key players. April had fewer games than the eight that we packed into March - but all of huge significance.
First, we would return from the final international break of the season to an FA Cup semi-final, away to Manchester United. It would then be back to WSL action, at home against Aston Villa, before ending the month with the toughest test of all - the two legs of our Champions League semi-final vs Barcelona.
The Catalan side have been the dominant force in Europe over the past several years - and were the team we fell to at the same stage of this competition last year. In Emma HAyes’ final season at the club, it would be her final shot at Champions League glory for Chelsea - but the Blues would be big underdogs.

Key headlines

Legendary goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger leaves Chelsea
Chelsea started this season with three goalkeepers good enough to start as the number 1 - and it was one of the early storylines as to who would win that battle.
After having been the first choice since her arrival to the club in January 2019, Ann-Katrin Berger was to be displaced by Hannah Hampton - and since autumn has barely featured, through a combination of injury and appearing to fall out of favour.
It was no surprise to see the German leave the club, as such - and this month it was announced the 33-year-old had signed for NWSL side Gotham FC.
She leaves as one of the greatest to ever play between the sticks for the club, having been a key part of 10 trophies - and most memorably, the hero in the penalty shootout win in last season’s Champions League quarter-final vs Lyon, in what was one of the best nights in our history.
Her departure does raise questions about the future of Jess Carter, who Berger has been in a relationship with for many years - the centre half's contract expires next summer.

Now - to the action!

Man United 2-1 Chelsea (FA Cup)
FA Cup semi-final weekend meant a fixture for Chelsea, whilst title rivals Man City benefitted from an extended rest after the international break.
Chelsea had never previously lost to Man United since they reformed their women’s team in 2018. Although Marc Skinner’s side pushed the Blues to the final day in the WSL last year, we had the beating of them on three occasions in 2022/23 - and managed to hold off their title push.
It has been a more challenging year for them this year - falling off quite considerably in the league, and being well short of the top three in the battle for Champions League qualification.
Fears were that that could potentially only serve to motivate them further in the FA Cup - a competition where Chelsea dashed their hopes last year, by beating them in the final. This was the only trophy left for Man United to contest
There was only one change to the line up who had lost to Arsenal in the Conti Cup final at the end of March, with Guro Reiten coming in to start.
Disaster immediately struck for Chelsea, when Eve Perisset - who has been so good in recent weeks - sold Hannah Hampton short with a back pass. The lurking Leah Galton pounced, and crossed to Lucia Garcia. The Spaniard headed Man United into a shock early lead, with less than a minute played.
Chelsea were slightly stunned - and struggled to respond in the face of a highly-motivated home side, who were roared on by a jubilant crowd.
It was to get even worse, with Man United doubling their lead inside 25 minutes - and putting themselves into a commanding position in the tie.
It was another headed goal - this time Rachel Williams finishing off an Ella Toone cross, and meaning Chelsea were left facing a mountain to climb.
The Blues did gradually grow into the game, and began dominating possession and territory, but without creating many real chances.
A lifelime emerged in the form of a first half stoppage time goal from our top scorer this year, Lauren James - a thumping finish from a Niamh Charles cutback. It was LJ’s fourth goal this season against her former club, and the timing of it meant a platform to mount a comeback in the second half.
There had been some concern over Mayra Ramirez late in the first half - who was challenged off the ball by Maya Le Tissier, and required lengthy treatment. Thankfully the Colombian was okay to continue - but the lack of action against the Man United defender set a tone for the second half to come.
Chelsea came out like a team who knew what was on the line - and the second half was one-way traffic, as Man United defended mostly with 11 players behind the ball.
Mary Earps was called upon on several occasions - tipping substitute Cat Macario’s corner onto the bar, and producing an outstanding save from a James’ header.
The Blues were also unfortunate on several occasions with officiating decisions, in addition to the Ramirez incident in the first half. There were two separate good shouts for penalties - and it was a justified sense of aggrievement, given that the coin consistently seemed to flip in the home side’s favour throughout the game.
Chelsea kept pushing - and Man United kept defending for their lives. None of Chelsea’s eight corners (compared to Man United’s none…) could force the issue - and Aggie Beever-Jones came agonisingly close in injury time, hitting the side netting.
We could not find the equaliser that our play in the second half had merited- and so it was Man United who progressed to the Wembley final, where they will face Spurs with both sides looking to win their first major trophy. The damage had been done with the poor start in the first half, which meant that a comeback was always going to be difficult.
It means that Emma Hayes will not end her Chelsea career with victory at Wembley, and add to the five FA Cups she has already won in her tenure - and that Chelsea’s hopes of silverware this season have been slashed in half from four down to two, in the space of our last two games.
There was not much time to commiserate, however - with another key match to come just three days later, away to Aston Villa in the WSL.
Chelsea 3-0 Aston Villa (WSL)
Just three days after the gutting FA Cup semi-final defeat to Man United, we had to get straight back on the horse, and return to the pressure cooker of the WSL title race - hosting Aston Villa at home.
Having now played a game more, Man City led the way - with a three point advantage, and being one ahead at goal difference. That meant Chelsea had to win to keep pace - and with just four games left of the league season, and City having the kinder run-in both in terms of opponents and rest days, any dropped points could prove fatal.
Like every match between now and the end of the season, it could be season-defining - and given the back-to-back defeats that preceded it, a win was an absolute imperative.
The opponents were not as tough a prospect as they once seemed - Aston Villa have struggled this year, after their breakout season in 2022/23… but are still a good team, with some dangerous players.
Emma Hayes rotated heavily, with no doubt one eye on the Champions League semi-final first leg to come at the weekend. There were seven changes in total, including Cat Macario making her first start - and Maika Hamano only making her second start in Blue. Lauren James missed out entirely, with a foot injury.
Such heavy rotation could have been a risk - but the task was made a lot easier inside five minutes, when Villa were reduced to ten players.
Captain Rachel Corsie’s loose pass was pounced on by Sjoeke Nüsken, and with keeper Anna Leat stranded, the German attempted a long range shot. Leat diverted it away from goal - but in doing so handled it outside of the box, and was given her marching orders. Villa manager Carla Ward had to turn to 17-year-old Sophia Poor as her reserve, who was making her senior debut.
This was therefore a golden opportunity for Chelsea… not just to take three points, but to add to our goal difference, which could prove crucial in such a close fight with City.
The Blues set about amping up the pressure, and it felt a matter of time before the breakthrough. It took a moment of what is quickly becoming characteristic quality, from Aggie Beever-Jones - a swinging volleyed finish from a Niamh Charles cross.
It was the 20-year-old’s seventh WSL goal this season, and she was to be joined on the scoresheet by the only other Chelsea player younger than her - Maika Hamano.
The Japanese teenager started the season injured, and had waited a long time for her debut - so her first Chelsea goal was especially sweet for her, and everyone watching on.
Ashley Lawrence’s cross was flicked on by Macario - who was probably trying to score - and Hamano was on hand to finish from close range. After a challenging few weeks at Chelsea, this was restorative of many smiles - and the 2-0 lead also meant we went top on goal difference.
The only disappointment of the first half was that we could not press home our advantage more - but there were still 45 minutes to come.
Beever-Jones led the charge in the second half, and a brilliant mazy run from her inside the first few minutes deserved a goal - but our young dynamo could not quite find a finish.
There was then more worry for Villa, when Poor went down injured - but the teenager was fine to continue, although she did appear in discomfort for the rest of the game.
Hamano nearly exploited this almost immediately after Poor restarted play - closing down the young keeper, but not quite being able to squeeze in a third goal.
Hayes started to ring the changes, with Reiten coming on for Charles. Soon after this, the Blues did finally have a third goal - and it was another milestone moment.
In her second season at Chelsea, Kadeisha Buchanan registered her first goal - heading home a Macario corner. It was a deserved assist too for the American, whose delivery had been on the money all night.
Rytting Kaneryd, Ramirez and Cuthbert all joined the fray, but could not quite bring more goals to the party - Reiten in particular smashing a shot straight down Poor’s throat, when she really should have made it 4-0.
It took until the 90th minute for Hannah Hampton to make her first save of the game, against her former club, as the ten women managed a shot on target at the death. It was an important save - as it would have been immensely frustrating to lose our clean sheet in a game like this.
Despite nine minutes of injury time - and not for lack of trying - Chelsea were not able to force any more goals, so had to be content with a 3-0 victory.
It was a win which put us back on top of the WSL - level on points with Man City, but now with a two superior goal difference.
We might rue not scoring more against a vulnerable Villa side - but given the previous two results, the win was the most important outcome, and it felt a relief to be one that was so straightforward.
Barcelona 0-1 Chelsea (WCL)
The next game was not likely to be so straightforward.
For the first leg of our Champions League semi-final, we were to face arguably the toughest test in women’s football - Barcelona away.
The all-conquering Barcelona Femení are not only the reigning European champions, but boasted a frankly incredible record of having gone over five years undefeated on their own ground.
It was the third time in four seasons the Blues had faced the Catalans in this competition. In 2021, our first (and only) Champions League final had ended in tatters - a 4-0 hammering, in which Barca scored all four goals inside a hurricane of an opening 30 minutes.
The scoreline in last year’s semi-final had been closer - a 2-1 aggregate loss - but truthfully the gap in quality was just as vast, with Chelsea giving everything they had and still coming up way short.
With the travails of this season, a positive result at the Estadi Olímpic felt unlikely.
There was a boost ahead of kick off, with club captain Millie Bright being named in a match day squad for the first time since her knee injury in November. It was unlikely Bright would feature after such an extended spell on the sidelines, but it was a heartening sight nonetheless.
After having missed the midweek win vs Villa, Lauren James was fit to start, taking her place alongside Mayra Ramirez. Erin Cuthbert lined up in midfield with Sjoeke Nüsken and Melanie Leupolz, whilst Emma Hayes chose to pack the defensive third with a back five - Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Ashley Lawrence flanking Niamh Charles, Jess Carter and Kadeisha Buchanan.
The back five was a signal of Hayes’ intent, and the only way Chelsea were realistically going to get a result against such a dangerous side. Barcelona set about their business as they tend to - dominating possession and pinning the Blues (in our mint green kit) back. Within the opening minute they had already put a dangerous cross in, and the signs felt ominous.
Unlike in our previous encounters against the Blaugrana, however, once we had ridden the early storm there was more attacking intent - showing an ambition befitting of our status.
Lawrence and Rytting Kaneryd, as wing backs, showed they had more to bring to the party than just defensive reinforcement. Their threat out wide was causing problems for Barca’s defence, especially with the lurking Ramirez, who would be well known to Barcelona from her time in La Liga with Levante.
Despite their dominance in possession, Barcelona struggled to create many clear chances in the first half - and to the surprise of the near 40,000 in the stadium, and all of those watching elsewhere, it was instead Chelsea who got the opening goal.
It was a goal befitting of the occasion - and the significance.
There were two key moments of quality. First Nüsken showed excellent skill and composure to retain possession inside the opposition box - something that often most characterises the home side - and then turning brilliantly to play in Cuthbert.
The captain for the day often stands up tall in the biggest games - and this was another for her collection. The Scot took a touch to make her own space, and then rifled the ball into the top corner, making it 1-0 to Chelsea.
The next objective was to get through to half time - and Chelsea managed the next five minutes well, meaning we had a lead to defend for the second half.
Of note, Barcelona were yet to register a shot on target - and that it took until injury time of the second half to do so is testament to just how well Chelsea did curtail the European champions.
The story could have been very different, if not for the intervention of VAR, shortly after the resumption of play.
The on-field referee had initially awarded a penalty for handball against Buchanan. On VAR review, it was deemed that Salma Paralluelo, who was offside, was interfering with play in the build-up, and so the decision was overturned.
That reprieve strengthened Chelsea’s resolve, with Jess Carter in particular immense in the centre of defence - producing one of her best-ever displays for the club, against the team who had given her such a torrid time in the 2021 final. She was deservedly named Player of the Match, at full time.
Chelsea were unlucky with the officiating ourselves - with what looked like a clear penalty on Ramirez being waved away just after the hour mark.
There was arguably some good fortune for the Blues, too with Barcelona’s normally lethal attacking players spurning some good chances - this included Paralluelo, and two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas, who had come on as a second half substitute.
On balance, Ramirez too, could have added to Chelsea’s lead - and 2-0 would have been genuine dreamland territory.
With every last player on the pitch given everything they had, Chelsea were able to see out a historic win - one of the greatest in our club's history, and after the tough times of recent weeks, a delightful one. There was certainly some experience on display too - with the Blues making the most of any opportunity to run down the clock, to the increasing frustration of the Barcelona players and their fans, who created a hostile atmosphere to make Chelsea’s achievement all the greater.
Hayes was cautious post-match - warning that there was a lot of work to be done, with it still only being the cliched ‘half time in the tie’.
Nonetheless, to become the first team to beat Barcelona in five years at home - and to register our first-ever win against them - this was huge, this was history, and a true highlight of Emma Hayes’ final season… whatever happens next.
Chelsea would have a week to recover - and prepare for the second leg at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea 0-2 Barcelona (WCL) - Barcelona win 2-1 on aggregate
A full week of preparation was a rarity for Chelsea this season - in fact, a full six days of rest between the first and second legs of this tie was the longest we had had this calendar year to prepare for a game.
It was going to be needed.
Following the historic 1-0 win against Barcelona in Spain, the Blues came into the second leg of our semi-final tie with a slender advantage - but also with the knowledge that the European champions can blow away any team.
There had been much chat in the media from the Catalans, with the reigning Ballon d’Or holder Aitana Bonmati leading the complaints against Chelsea’s so-called “dirty” tactics in the first leg - although how she judged a fairly routine bit of time wasting as more against the spirit of the game than the rough treatment of Mayra Ramirez had raised a few eyebrows.
Games do not come much bigger than this, and the Saturday evening showdown at Stamford Bridge was the talk of women’s football.
There had been a huge push to get the crowd at the Bridge to mark the occasion - which would also be the final time Emma Hayes led her team out at the ground. Fittingly, the 39,000 made it a record crowd for Chelsea FC Women.
Hayes persisted with the back three that had been deployed to so much success in the first leg. The only change to the starting XI was Mayra Ramirez - who was ruled out with injury. This was a big blow for Chelsea - the Barcelona defence had struggled to handle the Colombian the week previously. It did mean an opportunity for Cat Macario to start - and the American has experience in this competition with Lyon, scoring in their 2022 final win… vs Barcelona.
The sellout crowd contributed a loud soundtrack to the evening kick off, with Barcelona also trying to bring their famous intensity from the start, in a step up from their performance last week.
Chelsea showed early signs that they were not content to just sit back - attempting to release Lauren James and Macario whenever given the chance. The wide threat from Ashley Lawrence and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd was carried over from the week previously, too - and from Lawrence’s good wing play Erin Curhtber had a chance to replicate her goal from the first leg, but instead blazed over.
Hannah Hampton’s first real save came after around 20 minutes - a straightforward one from the dangerous Caroline Graham Hansen.
Unfortunately, it was less than five minutes later that Barcelona finally got on the scoresheet in the tie - and it was through the reigning Ballon d’Or holder, Bonmati. The midfielder’s striker took a cruel deflection off of Kadeisha Buchanan to wrongfoot Hampton, but they all count… and that crucially made it 1-1 on aggregate.
Cuthbert took her frustration out by booting a clearance straight into Bonmati’s face, leading to a break in play shortly after the goal - and a chance to regroup.
There was soon after a heartstopping moment, when Melanie Leupolz struck the crossbar with what looked like a golden chance to restore Chelsea’s overall lead - after our best attacking move of the match. However, the flag was raised for offside in the build up, to spare some of the agony - and it did show the Blues were still in the tie.
That moment did spark off what was Chelsea’s best 10 minute period of the match - and the Blues should have scored when Barcelona made an uncharacteristic error in defence. Nusken won the ball in the opposition box, but her cutback could not quite find James. There was a worry we would not get many better chances than that…
It was crucial to get to half time with the game still in the balance - and we did, meaning it was all still to fight for in the second half.
The pressure was to keep building, however, in the second half - and Chelsea were turning to increasingly desperate defending to hold back the Barcelona surge. The raucous home support tried their best - but were silenced by the few minutes around the hour mark.
First, Chelsea came the closest we would get to a goal in the game. A brilliant long pass from James found Lawrence, whose cross was met first time by the onrushing Nusken. Her stretched effort bounced off the outside of the post - leaving the German, and everyone in Blue, with head in hands.
Then, just minutes later, the game changed entirely. Chelsea are no stranger to dodgy referee decisions in the Champions League versus Barcelona - and this one would have had Didier Drogba out of his seat. Buchanan was shown a very harsh second yellow card, reducing Chelsea to ten players - and making the task mountainous.
Hayes made her first change, with Guro Reiten coming on for Macario. And Chelsea kept on fighting, pushing into the final 20 minutes with it still locked at 1-1 on aggregate.
Then, typically, another favourable refereeing decision for the opposition changed the game again. The lightest of pushes on Bonmati from Lawrence - after the Spaniard had appeared to first push the defender herself - resulted in a penalty, which unlike last week, VAR allowed to stand.
Fridolina Rolfo showed the coolest of heads from 12 yards to convert the spot kick, and for the first time in over 160 minutes of this tie, Barcelona were in front.
With 15 minutes left to play, a player and a goal down - it did feel like the end. Hayes threw the kitchen sink at it - bringing on each of Aggie Beever-Jones, Fran Kirby and Eve Perisset… and her wildcard, Millie Bright.
The centre half was making her first appearance in six months, after a long and difficult rehab from a knee injury - and the reception from the near 40,000 at the Bridge for our returning captain was a truly special moment.
Bright has before in crunch games for both England and Chelsea been used as an emergency centre forward - and this was her role for this cameo, as the Blues gave everything they had in the final throes, whilst the rain fell heavier and heavier.
There was to be six minutes of injury time for Chelsea to get an implausible goal to level up the tie - and after their complaints, it was Barcelona’s turn to waste time.
In the end, everything we had was not enough. The dream was over - but it was not without a fight, and any Chelsea fan could at least be happy that with odds increasingly stacked against us, through both injury and officiating, we acquitted ourselves well… and that gap really does appear to be closing.
It was next going to be a big task to pick ourselves up for the one trophy left to win, in this long season.

April results in brief

Fixture	Result	Competition	Goal scorers
Man United (A)	2-1 L	FA Cup	James (Charles assist)
Aston Villa (H)	3-0 W		WSL
Barcelona (A)	1-0 W	WCL	Cuthbert (Nüsken assist)
Barcelona (H)	2-0 L	WCL	n/a

Summary

April saw two gutting semi-final defeats for Chelsea FC Women, meaning our chances of silverware are now cut down to just one competition - the WSL.
Our loss to Man United in the FA Cup was frustrating, both due to our poor first half performance - and then due to refereeing decisions which could have made for a different result.
The second semi-final gave us both all of the highs and the lows of Champions League knockout ties. The win in Barcelona against the Catalan giants was their first on home territory in five years, our first-ever against them, and gave genuine hope of progressing through to the Champions League final - and keep alive the dream of winning the one trophy which has eluded Chelsea and Emma Hayes.
It was not to be. More harsh officiating made it a very difficult loss to take - Chelsea had performed brilliantly across the two legs, despite further injuries, and showed we can compete with the very best.
In the interim, we had won vs Aston Villa in the WSL, to ensure we stayed in the title race. Man City have now played two games more than the Blues, and comprehensive wins mean they now have a 7 goal advantage in goal difference, as well as a six point lead.
It is the only trophy we now have left to win - and given the form of Man City, who have it in their hands, it looks an increasingly tall order. a
Preview - Man City look favourites, tall order, may be tme to accept we will end trophyless
Lauren James, Mayra Ramirez and Aggie Beever-Jones also continue to shine - creating much cause for cheer and optimism for not just the weeks to come, but also the years after.

May preview

It is now all about the league.
Chelsea have four WSL games left to play - and it is a challenging fixture list.
First up in May we travel to Liverpool, who sit fifth in the league and are hunting down rivals Man United for fourth spot. Then, we will host already-relegated Bristol City at Kingsmeadow - in what will be Emma Hayes’ final home game as Blues manager.
In the last week of the season, we travel first to Tottenham Hotspur - who this month reached their first-ever FA Cup final - and then away to Man United, on the final day of the season.
Neither of those away fixtures are easy - and especially so given there is an acceptance that every team in the WSL would quite enjoy Chelsea being knocked off the perch that we have sat on for the past four years, with our four consecutive league title wins.
Man City, have just two to play - they will end the season away to Aston Villa, but first host Arsenal at home. It is that Arsenal game which gives the faintest glimmer of hope - but given Arsenal have secured third spot and hence European football, and have no prospect of challenging for the title, it is a slim hope. Add to that the bitter rivalry between Chelsea and our North London rivals, and it does not seem likely they will be doing us a favour.
Given that - Man City are favourites. They have the form, the fixtures, and the better goal difference. If they win their two games, they will likely win the league. It seems more likely Chelsea will drop points - and even if we do not, we have a big goal differential to make up.
It is not done yet, however - and one thing is certain is that Chelsea will fight to the end, as shown in the second leg vs Barcelona. The long-awaited return of Millie Bright to the pitch, after a knee injury which has kept her out for six months, is a boost too - and may help to see us through.
Four games left to win a title - and four games left for Emma Hayes.

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The Chelsea FC Women April round-up - (double) semi-final heartbreak, but the Blues battle on

Welcome to the seventh Chelsea FC Women monthly round-up of the 2023/24 season.
These reviews are posted on a monthly basis throughout the season, and feature a summary of the exploits of Emma Hayes' Chelsea side, as well as a brief preview of the month ahead.
(This post is a long read, so feel free to skip to the end for the summary!)

Introduction

March had ended for Chelsea with a gutting loss in extra time of the Conti Cup final - meaning our quadruple hopes were at an end, but we still had three trophies left to fight for.
"Fight" being the operative word - it has been a grind of a season for Chelsea, between fixture congestion and significant injuries to key players. April had fewer games than the eight that we packed into March - but all of huge significance.
First, we would return from the final international break of the season to an FA Cup semi-final, away to Manchester United. It would then be back to WSL action, at home against Aston Villa, before ending the month with the toughest test of all - the two legs of our Champions League semi-final vs Barcelona.
The Catalan side have been the dominant force in Europe over the past several years - and were the team we fell to at the same stage of this competition last year. In Emma HAyes’ final season at the club, it would be her final shot at Champions League glory for Chelsea - but the Blues would be big underdogs.

Key headlines

Legendary goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger leaves Chelsea
Chelsea started this season with three goalkeepers good enough to start as the number 1 - and it was one of the early storylines as to who would win that battle.
After having been the first choice since her arrival to the club in January 2019, Ann-Katrin Berger was to be displaced by Hannah Hampton - and since autumn has barely featured, through a combination of injury and appearing to fall out of favour.
It was no surprise to see the German leave the club, as such - and this month it was announced the 33-year-old had signed for NWSL side Gotham FC.
She leaves as one of the greatest to ever play between the sticks for the club, having been a key part of 10 trophies - and most memorably, the hero in the penalty shootout win in last season’s Champions League quarter-final vs Lyon, in what was one of the best nights in our history.
Her departure does raise questions about the future of Jess Carter, who Berger has been in a relationship with for many years - the centre half's contract expires next summer.

Now - to the action!

Man United 2-1 Chelsea (FA Cup)
FA Cup semi-final weekend meant a fixture for Chelsea, whilst title rivals Man City benefitted from an extended rest after the international break.
Chelsea had never previously lost to Man United since they reformed their women’s team in 2018. Although Marc Skinner’s side pushed the Blues to the final day in the WSL last year, we had the beating of them on three occasions in 2022/23 - and managed to hold off their title push.
It has been a more challenging year for them this year - falling off quite considerably in the league, and being well short of the top three in the battle for Champions League qualification.
Fears were that that could potentially only serve to motivate them further in the FA Cup - a competition where Chelsea dashed their hopes last year, by beating them in the final. This was the only trophy left for Man United to contest
There was only one change to the line up who had lost to Arsenal in the Conti Cup final at the end of March, with Guro Reiten coming in to start.
Disaster immediately struck for Chelsea, when Eve Perisset - who has been so good in recent weeks - sold Hannah Hampton short with a back pass. The lurking Leah Galton pounced, and crossed to Lucia Garcia. The Spaniard headed Man United into a shock early lead, with less than a minute played.
Chelsea were slightly stunned - and struggled to respond in the face of a highly-motivated home side, who were roared on by a jubilant crowd.
It was to get even worse, with Man United doubling their lead inside 25 minutes - and putting themselves into a commanding position in the tie.
It was another headed goal - this time Rachel Williams finishing off an Ella Toone cross, and meaning Chelsea were left facing a mountain to climb.
The Blues did gradually grow into the game, and began dominating possession and territory, but without creating many real chances.
A lifelime emerged in the form of a first half stoppage time goal from our top scorer this year, Lauren James - a thumping finish from a Niamh Charles cutback. It was LJ’s fourth goal this season against her former club, and the timing of it meant a platform to mount a comeback in the second half.
There had been some concern over Mayra Ramirez late in the first half - who was challenged off the ball by Maya Le Tissier, and required lengthy treatment. Thankfully the Colombian was okay to continue - but the lack of action against the Man United defender set a tone for the second half to come.
Chelsea came out like a team who knew what was on the line - and the second half was one-way traffic, as Man United defended mostly with 11 players behind the ball.
Mary Earps was called upon on several occasions - tipping substitute Cat Macario’s corner onto the bar, and producing an outstanding save from a James’ header.
The Blues were also unfortunate on several occasions with officiating decisions, in addition to the Ramirez incident in the first half. There were two separate good shouts for penalties - and it was a justified sense of aggrievement, given that the coin consistently seemed to flip in the home side’s favour throughout the game.
Chelsea kept pushing - and Man United kept defending for their lives. None of Chelsea’s eight corners (compared to Man United’s none…) could force the issue - and Aggie Beever-Jones came agonisingly close in injury time, hitting the side netting.
We could not find the equaliser that our play in the second half had merited- and so it was Man United who progressed to the Wembley final, where they will face Spurs with both sides looking to win their first major trophy. The damage had been done with the poor start in the first half, which meant that a comeback was always going to be difficult.
It means that Emma Hayes will not end her Chelsea career with victory at Wembley, and add to the five FA Cups she has already won in her tenure - and that Chelsea’s hopes of silverware this season have been slashed in half from four down to two, in the space of our last two games.
There was not much time to commiserate, however - with another key match to come just three days later, away to Aston Villa in the WSL.
Chelsea 3-0 Aston Villa (WSL)
Just three days after the gutting FA Cup semi-final defeat to Man United, we had to get straight back on the horse, and return to the pressure cooker of the WSL title race - hosting Aston Villa at home.
Having now played a game more, Man City led the way - with a three point advantage, and being one ahead at goal difference. That meant Chelsea had to win to keep pace - and with just four games left of the league season, and City having the kinder run-in both in terms of opponents and rest days, any dropped points could prove fatal.
Like every match between now and the end of the season, it could be season-defining - and given the back-to-back defeats that preceded it, a win was an absolute imperative.
The opponents were not as tough a prospect as they once seemed - Aston Villa have struggled this year, after their breakout season in 2022/23… but are still a good team, with some dangerous players.
Emma Hayes rotated heavily, with no doubt one eye on the Champions League semi-final first leg to come at the weekend. There were seven changes in total, including Cat Macario making her first start - and Maika Hamano only making her second start in Blue. Lauren James missed out entirely, with a foot injury.
Such heavy rotation could have been a risk - but the task was made a lot easier inside five minutes, when Villa were reduced to ten players.
Captain Rachel Corsie’s loose pass was pounced on by Sjoeke Nüsken, and with keeper Anna Leat stranded, the German attempted a long range shot. Leat diverted it away from goal - but in doing so handled it outside of the box, and was given her marching orders. Villa manager Carla Ward had to turn to 17-year-old Sophia Poor as her reserve, who was making her senior debut.
This was therefore a golden opportunity for Chelsea… not just to take three points, but to add to our goal difference, which could prove crucial in such a close fight with City.
The Blues set about amping up the pressure, and it felt a matter of time before the breakthrough. It took a moment of what is quickly becoming characteristic quality, from Aggie Beever-Jones - a swinging volleyed finish from a Niamh Charles cross.
It was the 20-year-old’s seventh WSL goal this season, and she was to be joined on the scoresheet by the only other Chelsea player younger than her - Maika Hamano.
The Japanese teenager started the season injured, and had waited a long time for her debut - so her first Chelsea goal was especially sweet for her, and everyone watching on.
Ashley Lawrence’s cross was flicked on by Macario - who was probably trying to score - and Hamano was on hand to finish from close range. After a challenging few weeks at Chelsea, this was restorative of many smiles - and the 2-0 lead also meant we went top on goal difference.
The only disappointment of the first half was that we could not press home our advantage more - but there were still 45 minutes to come.
Beever-Jones led the charge in the second half, and a brilliant mazy run from her inside the first few minutes deserved a goal - but our young dynamo could not quite find a finish.
There was then more worry for Villa, when Poor went down injured - but the teenager was fine to continue, although she did appear in discomfort for the rest of the game.
Hamano nearly exploited this almost immediately after Poor restarted play - closing down the young keeper, but not quite being able to squeeze in a third goal.
Hayes started to ring the changes, with Reiten coming on for Charles. Soon after this, the Blues did finally have a third goal - and it was another milestone moment.
In her second season at Chelsea, Kadeisha Buchanan registered her first goal - heading home a Macario corner. It was a deserved assist too for the American, whose delivery had been on the money all night.
Rytting Kaneryd, Ramirez and Cuthbert all joined the fray, but could not quite bring more goals to the party - Reiten in particular smashing a shot straight down Poor’s throat, when she really should have made it 4-0.
It took until the 90th minute for Hannah Hampton to make her first save of the game, against her former club, as the ten women managed a shot on target at the death. It was an important save - as it would have been immensely frustrating to lose our clean sheet in a game like this.
Despite nine minutes of injury time - and not for lack of trying - Chelsea were not able to force any more goals, so had to be content with a 3-0 victory.
It was a win which put us back on top of the WSL - level on points with Man City, but now with a two superior goal difference.
We might rue not scoring more against a vulnerable Villa side - but given the previous two results, the win was the most important outcome, and it felt a relief to be one that was so straightforward.
Barcelona 0-1 Chelsea (WCL)
The next game was not likely to be so straightforward.
For the first leg of our Champions League semi-final, we were to face arguably the toughest test in women’s football - Barcelona away.
The all-conquering Barcelona Femení are not only the reigning European champions, but boasted a frankly incredible record of having gone over five years undefeated on their own ground.
It was the third time in four seasons the Blues had faced the Catalans in this competition. In 2021, our first (and only) Champions League final had ended in tatters - a 4-0 hammering, in which Barca scored all four goals inside a hurricane of an opening 30 minutes.
The scoreline in last year’s semi-final had been closer - a 2-1 aggregate loss - but truthfully the gap in quality was just as vast, with Chelsea giving everything they had and still coming up way short.
With the travails of this season, a positive result at the Estadi Olímpic felt unlikely.
There was a boost ahead of kick off, with club captain Millie Bright being named in a match day squad for the first time since her knee injury in November. It was unlikely Bright would feature after such an extended spell on the sidelines, but it was a heartening sight nonetheless.
After having missed the midweek win vs Villa, Lauren James was fit to start, taking her place alongside Mayra Ramirez. Erin Cuthbert lined up in midfield with Sjoeke Nüsken and Melanie Leupolz, whilst Emma Hayes chose to pack the defensive third with a back five - Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Ashley Lawrence flanking Niamh Charles, Jess Carter and Kadeisha Buchanan.
The back five was a signal of Hayes’ intent, and the only way Chelsea were realistically going to get a result against such a dangerous side. Barcelona set about their business as they tend to - dominating possession and pinning the Blues (in our mint green kit) back. Within the opening minute they had already put a dangerous cross in, and the signs felt ominous.
Unlike in our previous encounters against the Blaugrana, however, once we had ridden the early storm there was more attacking intent - showing an ambition befitting of our status.
Lawrence and Rytting Kaneryd, as wing backs, showed they had more to bring to the party than just defensive reinforcement. Their threat out wide was causing problems for Barca’s defence, especially with the lurking Ramirez, who would be well known to Barcelona from her time in La Liga with Levante.
Despite their dominance in possession, Barcelona struggled to create many clear chances in the first half - and to the surprise of the near 40,000 in the stadium, and all of those watching elsewhere, it was instead Chelsea who got the opening goal.
It was a goal befitting of the occasion - and the significance.
There were two key moments of quality. First Nüsken showed excellent skill and composure to retain possession inside the opposition box - something that often most characterises the home side - and then turning brilliantly to play in Cuthbert.
The captain for the day often stands up tall in the biggest games - and this was another for her collection. The Scot took a touch to make her own space, and then rifled the ball into the top corner, making it 1-0 to Chelsea.
The next objective was to get through to half time - and Chelsea managed the next five minutes well, meaning we had a lead to defend for the second half.
Of note, Barcelona were yet to register a shot on target - and that it took until injury time of the second half to do so is testament to just how well Chelsea did curtail the European champions.
The story could have been very different, if not for the intervention of VAR, shortly after the resumption of play.
The on-field referee had initially awarded a penalty for handball against Buchanan. On VAR review, it was deemed that Salma Paralluelo, who was offside, was interfering with play in the build-up, and so the decision was overturned.
That reprieve strengthened Chelsea’s resolve, with Jess Carter in particular immense in the centre of defence - producing one of her best-ever displays for the club, against the team who had given her such a torrid time in the 2021 final. She was deservedly named Player of the Match, at full time.
Chelsea were unlucky with the officiating ourselves - with what looked like a clear penalty on Ramirez being waved away just after the hour mark.
There was arguably some good fortune for the Blues, too with Barcelona’s normally lethal attacking players spurning some good chances - this included Paralluelo, and two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas, who had come on as a second half substitute.
On balance, Ramirez too, could have added to Chelsea’s lead - and 2-0 would have been genuine dreamland territory.
With every last player on the pitch given everything they had, Chelsea were able to see out a historic win - one of the greatest in our club's history, and after the tough times of recent weeks, a delightful one. There was certainly some experience on display too - with the Blues making the most of any opportunity to run down the clock, to the increasing frustration of the Barcelona players and their fans, who created a hostile atmosphere to make Chelsea’s achievement all the greater.
Hayes was cautious post-match - warning that there was a lot of work to be done, with it still only being the cliched ‘half time in the tie’.
Nonetheless, to become the first team to beat Barcelona in five years at home - and to register our first-ever win against them - this was huge, this was history, and a true highlight of Emma Hayes’ final season… whatever happens next.
Chelsea would have a week to recover - and prepare for the second leg at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea 0-2 Barcelona (WCL) - Barcelona win 2-1 on aggregate
A full week of preparation was a rarity for Chelsea this season - in fact, a full six days of rest between the first and second legs of this tie was the longest we had had this calendar year to prepare for a game.
It was going to be needed.
Following the historic 1-0 win against Barcelona in Spain, the Blues came into the second leg of our semi-final tie with a slender advantage - but also with the knowledge that the European champions can blow away any team.
There had been much chat in the media from the Catalans, with the reigning Ballon d’Or holder Aitana Bonmati leading the complaints against Chelsea’s so-called “dirty” tactics in the first leg - although how she judged a fairly routine bit of time wasting as more against the spirit of the game than the rough treatment of Mayra Ramirez had raised a few eyebrows.
Games do not come much bigger than this, and the Saturday evening showdown at Stamford Bridge was the talk of women’s football.
There had been a huge push to get the crowd at the Bridge to mark the occasion - which would also be the final time Emma Hayes led her team out at the ground. Fittingly, the 39,000 made it a record crowd for Chelsea FC Women.
Hayes persisted with the back three that had been deployed to so much success in the first leg. The only change to the starting XI was Mayra Ramirez - who was ruled out with injury. This was a big blow for Chelsea - the Barcelona defence had struggled to handle the Colombian the week previously. It did mean an opportunity for Cat Macario to start - and the American has experience in this competition with Lyon, scoring in their 2022 final win… vs Barcelona.
The sellout crowd contributed a loud soundtrack to the evening kick off, with Barcelona also trying to bring their famous intensity from the start, in a step up from their performance last week.
Chelsea showed early signs that they were not content to just sit back - attempting to release Lauren James and Macario whenever given the chance. The wide threat from Ashley Lawrence and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd was carried over from the week previously, too - and from Lawrence’s good wing play Erin Curhtber had a chance to replicate her goal from the first leg, but instead blazed over.
Hannah Hampton’s first real save came after around 20 minutes - a straightforward one from the dangerous Caroline Graham Hansen.
Unfortunately, it was less than five minutes later that Barcelona finally got on the scoresheet in the tie - and it was through the reigning Ballon d’Or holder, Bonmati. The midfielder’s striker took a cruel deflection off of Kadeisha Buchanan to wrongfoot Hampton, but they all count… and that crucially made it 1-1 on aggregate.
Cuthbert took her frustration out by booting a clearance straight into Bonmati’s face, leading to a break in play shortly after the goal - and a chance to regroup.
There was soon after a heartstopping moment, when Melanie Leupolz struck the crossbar with what looked like a golden chance to restore Chelsea’s overall lead - after our best attacking move of the match. However, the flag was raised for offside in the build up, to spare some of the agony - and it did show the Blues were still in the tie.
That moment did spark off what was Chelsea’s best 10 minute period of the match - and the Blues should have scored when Barcelona made an uncharacteristic error in defence. Nusken won the ball in the opposition box, but her cutback could not quite find James. There was a worry we would not get many better chances than that…
It was crucial to get to half time with the game still in the balance - and we did, meaning it was all still to fight for in the second half.
The pressure was to keep building, however, in the second half - and Chelsea were turning to increasingly desperate defending to hold back the Barcelona surge. The raucous home support tried their best - but were silenced by the few minutes around the hour mark.
First, Chelsea came the closest we would get to a goal in the game. A brilliant long pass from James found Lawrence, whose cross was met first time by the onrushing Nusken. Her stretched effort bounced off the outside of the post - leaving the German, and everyone in Blue, with head in hands.
Then, just minutes later, the game changed entirely. Chelsea are no stranger to dodgy referee decisions in the Champions League versus Barcelona - and this one would have had Didier Drogba out of his seat. Buchanan was shown a very harsh second yellow card, reducing Chelsea to ten players - and making the task mountainous.
Hayes made her first change, with Guro Reiten coming on for Macario. And Chelsea kept on fighting, pushing into the final 20 minutes with it still locked at 1-1 on aggregate.
Then, typically, another favourable refereeing decision for the opposition changed the game again. The lightest of pushes on Bonmati from Lawrence - after the Spaniard had appeared to first push the defender herself - resulted in a penalty, which unlike last week, VAR allowed to stand.
Fridolina Rolfo showed the coolest of heads from 12 yards to convert the spot kick, and for the first time in over 160 minutes of this tie, Barcelona were in front.
With 15 minutes left to play, a player and a goal down - it did feel like the end. Hayes threw the kitchen sink at it - bringing on each of Aggie Beever-Jones, Fran Kirby and Eve Perisset… and her wildcard, Millie Bright.
The centre half was making her first appearance in six months, after a long and difficult rehab from a knee injury - and the reception from the near 40,000 at the Bridge for our returning captain was a truly special moment.
Bright has before in crunch games for both England and Chelsea been used as an emergency centre forward - and this was her role for this cameo, as the Blues gave everything they had in the final throes, whilst the rain fell heavier and heavier.
There was to be six minutes of injury time for Chelsea to get an implausible goal to level up the tie - and after their complaints, it was Barcelona’s turn to waste time.
In the end, everything we had was not enough. The dream was over - but it was not without a fight, and any Chelsea fan could at least be happy that with odds increasingly stacked against us, through both injury and officiating, we acquitted ourselves well… and that gap really does appear to be closing.
It was next going to be a big task to pick ourselves up for the one trophy left to win, in this long season.

April results in brief

Fixture	Result	Competition	Goal scorers
Man United (A)	2-1 L	FA Cup	James (Charles assist)
Aston Villa (H)	3-0 W		WSL
Barcelona (A)	1-0 W	WCL	Cuthbert (Nüsken assist)
Barcelona (H)	2-0 L	WCL	n/a

Summary

April saw two gutting semi-final defeats for Chelsea FC Women, meaning our chances of silverware are now cut down to just one competition - the WSL.
Our loss to Man United in the FA Cup was frustrating, both due to our poor first half performance - and then due to refereeing decisions which could have made for a different result.
The second semi-final gave us both all of the highs and the lows of Champions League knockout ties. The win in Barcelona against the Catalan giants was their first on home territory in five years, our first-ever against them, and gave genuine hope of progressing through to the Champions League final - and keep alive the dream of winning the one trophy which has eluded Chelsea and Emma Hayes.
It was not to be. More harsh officiating made it a very difficult loss to take - Chelsea had performed brilliantly across the two legs, despite further injuries, and showed we can compete with the very best.
In the interim, we had won vs Aston Villa in the WSL, to ensure we stayed in the title race. Man City have now played two games more than the Blues, and comprehensive wins mean they now have a 7 goal advantage in goal difference, as well as a six point lead.
It is the only trophy we now have left to win - and given the form of Man City, who have it in their hands, it looks an increasingly tall order. a
Preview - Man City look favourites, tall order, may be tme to accept we will end trophyless
Lauren James, Mayra Ramirez and Aggie Beever-Jones also continue to shine - creating much cause for cheer and optimism for not just the weeks to come, but also the years after.

May preview

It is now all about the league.
Chelsea have four WSL games left to play - and it is a challenging fixture list.
First up in May we travel to Liverpool, who sit fifth in the league and are hunting down rivals Man United for fourth spot. Then, we will host already-relegated Bristol City at Kingsmeadow - in what will be Emma Hayes’ final home game as Blues manager.
In the last week of the season, we travel first to Tottenham Hotspur - who this month reached their first-ever FA Cup final - and then away to Man United, on the final day of the season.
Neither of those away fixtures are easy - and especially so given there is an acceptance that every team in the WSL would quite enjoy Chelsea being knocked off the perch that we have sat on for the past four years, with our four consecutive league title wins.
Man City, have just two to play - they will end the season away to Aston Villa, but first host Arsenal at home. It is that Arsenal game which gives the faintest glimmer of hope - but given Arsenal have secured third spot and hence European football, and have no prospect of challenging for the title, it is a slim hope. Add to that the bitter rivalry between Chelsea and our North London rivals, and it does not seem likely they will be doing us a favour.
Given that - Man City are favourites. They have the form, the fixtures, and the better goal difference. If they win their two games, they will likely win the league. It seems more likely Chelsea will drop points - and even if we do not, we have a big goal differential to make up.
It is not done yet, however - and one thing is certain is that Chelsea will fight to the end, as shown in the second leg vs Barcelona. The long-awaited return of Millie Bright to the pitch, after a knee injury which has kept her out for six months, is a boost too - and may help to see us through.
Four games left to win a title - and four games left for Emma Hayes.

If you are interested in learning more about Chelsea FC Women, and keeping a closer eye on the progress of our women's team, then check out our subreddit, /chelsealadiesfc!

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Moon phase waxing gibbous, two days before full
Mars Right Ascension 23h 38m 14s
.1 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1c9tcxy/what_is_this/ photos, nighttime sky, at home, outside window, contemporaneous report, single light object, low over rooftop, stationary, duration 20 minutes, orange 🟠, photos show brightness change, it was as if the centre of it darkened for a moment and then returned to Orange., eye 👁, urban area, South Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 , near an army aerodrome ., [GOODPOST], OP deleted, lost data
.2 https://old.reddit.com/Skydentify/comments/1c9kuxq/have_you_ever_seen_a_ufo/ discussion of sightings
.3 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1c9nfjh/ufo_sighting_sedona_412_810pm/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, Sedona Arizona, single light object, diffuse, friend said they saw two little lights behind the main large light too, smaller objects accompany it, two witnesses
.4 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1c9ys5c/weekly_mexican_and_peruvian_ufo_disclosure/ information, state of disclosure, Mexico and Peru https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cadymb/all_the_relevant_uap_updates_from_april_1521/ different OP, state of disclosure USA
.5 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1ca9rxb/caught_something_drone_bird_crossing_the_luna video, nighttime sky, single dark object moving fast, traversing the face of the moon,
.6 reference ISS https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1ca7cxl/my_first_decent_picture_of_the_iss/ photo, international space station, ISS, nighttime, single light object, irregular shape, white ⚪️ light
.7 https://old.reddit.com/AnomalousEvidence/comments/1ca1bfh/an_experience/ dream description, entities, communication, They told me that they could see us but we couldn’t see them.
.8 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ca28gj/ufo_sighting_upstate_ny_19931995/ childhood sighting description, from car, nighttime, single light object, zigzag movements, I saw a light in the sky, moving in a perfect zig zag pattern. Like a "VVVVV" pattern. It was white, spherical. , Moira new York state, apathy in other witnesses,
.9 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ca4ln7/ufos_at_daytime/ video, daytime sky, repeat visitors, ongoing, threelights
.10 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cakyps/need_help_identifying_object/ video, nighttime sky, possible timelapse, moon?, from home security camera, OP is not the witness, single light object moving, descending
.11 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1camz3s/what_are_these_lights_in_the_chicago_night_sky/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, fourlights, diffuse, spotlights type, splitting and merging, from car, urban area, Chicago Illinois , repeat visitor, emotional reaction unease, What’s really weird is that a week ago I was telling someone about how might have seen a UFO when I was younger and I described them just like this video. This is the 3rd time I’ve seen these lights with this pattern in Chicago. And when I saw them again Saturday night, my heart sank a bit on how weird it was that they appeared not even a week into talking about it.
.12 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cakt3z/possible_sighting/ video and photo, nighttime sky, OP is a pilot, over central Kentucky , fleet, all different directions, moving erratically, formation change observed, forming shapes and maneuvering in reference to each other., duration 1 hour, [GOODPOST], photo shows triangle formation
.13 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cavgzg/any_idea_what_this_is_i_filmed_this_object_on/ video, nighttime sky, southwest Oklahoma, single light object moving straight, satellite?
.14 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cat6ss/first_sighting_meta_observations/ sighting description and discussion of apathy, contemporaneous report, daytime, two witnesses, fleet, overhead, duration 4 minutes, six silver things in the sky that were unlike anything I've seen before.,
.15 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cb8kez/seeking_other_constructive_opinions_as_to_what/ video, nighttime sky, threelights, triangle formation, stationary, from airplane, contemporaneous report, approach to Seatac International Airport, Seattle Washington, near water pacific ocean, video shows flareup, one object moving horizontally, possible light beams, landing lights?, two witnesses
.16 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cb240p/ufo_or_satellite/ long exposure photo, nighttime sky, single light object moving, trajectory change, Hampshire the UK 🇬🇧 , downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted
.17 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cazsm7/im_going_to_go_ahead_and_write_about_my_experience/ sighting description, at home, single object, V-shaped, approach, It was a open V with one side longer than the other. It had a red 🔴 shiny spot at the top of the long side. The short side had varied blues 🔵 and shiny white like diamonds . The frame was a metallic shiny green 🟢, moving and stationary, directly in front, splitting, sudden departure, All the sudden it turned into uniformed balls of white light in a spiraling motion. It was just gone after that., emotional reaction unease, I didn’t feel well afterwards for some time.
.18 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ca3whk/i_could_have_seen_a_ufo_once/ sighting description, single light object, possible reaction to being observed, vanishing, California
.19 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1c9cg28/do_aliens_visit_me/ experience description, at home, audio description beeping sound outside the house. , repeat visitor, two witnesses, heard a beep coming from my room, and I whispered "they're going to leave," and then I fell asleep., She says when I said that, the beeping went away. , Sometimes when I was falling asleep when I was about 12 or 13, I heard some kind of celestial or galactic music outside my window.
.20 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1c9dxrw/green_ball_falling_down_fast/ sighting description, at home, outside window, single light object moving fast, descending, green 🟢, two witnesses, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 , has anyone seen?
.21 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1c963b2/fully_robed_aliens/ dream description, landed craft, entities, aliens that were tall and they were all completely covered in black robes like a niqab but even their eyes were covered.
.22 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cap7gl/invertedv_no_lights_ufo_later_cloaked/ sighting description and reference image, V-shaped, has anyone seen?, at home, backyard, It was an inverted-V shaped UFO flying apex first. It had a weird clear bubble around the point or nose of the craft and it had water vapor pouring over the wings. I tried to draw that part in myself. It was banking when I saw it before it turned parallel to the ground and cloaked itself. The cloak looked similar to the cloaking style in the movie “The Predator.”, two objects observed, haze, orientation change, similar sightings in comments, [GOODPOST]
.23 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cbmj59/indepth_jason_sands_is_legitimate/ discussion of Jason Sands, OP is a member of the Intelligence Community, I am here to vouch for Jason Sands in attempt to support his credibility and encourage you all to also show support for him., OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy
.24 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cbpw5q/help_identifying_object_seen_today/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, at work, Mojave California, powerlines, single object blackwhite, moving slowly, tumbling, approach, moving and stationary and moving, trajectory change to vertical, It was traveling against the wind. It came down into the field across the road and came close to ground level and hovered for a bit. After hovering for a bit it began to rise directly vertically until it rose out of sight., downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy
.25 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cbuu8n/fleet_of_lights_over_australian_beach/ sighting description, fleet, Far North Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 , starlink?, 20 to 30 anomalous lights all following the same flight path, all at the same height, stopped at 19:27., three witnesses, similar sighting in comments , downvoted to zero
.26 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cc658p/was_this_a_sighting_happened_a_few_weeks_ago/ sighting description, urban area, single light object moving and stationary and moving, jumpy movement, trajectory change, kind of stood there for a second, then reversed, and continued to drop a bit. Finally, it did a loopy ∞ shape, just before shooting "up" and disappearing., sudden departure upward, thought its behavior was sentient, dancing, downvoted to zero , information about UFOs in Peru 🇵🇪
.27 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cc98a6/ufo_sighting_in_cardiff_uk/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, Cardiff the UK 🇬🇧, nighttime, urban area, single light object, metallic sphere, solid silver orb with what I can only explain as white/orange 🟠 electricity or plasma shifting around the object., haze , reaction to being observed, vanishing, duration 15 seconds, emotion of fear, shock, evening cloudy sky
.28 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccde77/orb_like_object_over_galway_bay_ireland/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, over water, Galway Bay Ireland 🇮🇪, stationary, pulsating, three witnesses, moving, looked to me like a grid pattern.
.29 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cce86y/thoughts/ photo, nighttime sky, Helensbay Northern Ireland the UK 🇬🇧, two objects, possible pyramid shape, multiple lights, splitting, She described the two objects as moving stars two and then both became three each.
.30 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccf2p2/richmond_virginia_sightings_in_past_month/ photos, multiple events, repeat visitors, near water, James River, Richmond Virginia, similar sightings in comments, at home, nighttime, witness woke up, felt compelled to go outside, made three passes, directly in front, zigzag movements, The third time was just last week and the craft seem to move left to right three times in front of me.
.31 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccfhon/nycwhat_is_this/ photos, nighttime sky, at home, outside window, contemporaneous report, fleet or single object multiple lights splitting, contemporaneous report, low over rooftop, urban area, NYC New York state, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, duration 1 hour
.32 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccftbw/i_finally_saw_something/ sighting description, downvoted to zero, contemporaneous report, Arkansas, nighttime, single light object moving, silent, two witnesses, perception discrepancy, other witness observed plane,
.33 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cctozw/high_speed_object_caught_near_airport/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single object moving fast, from airport, RHO Diagoras Greece 🇬🇷, near water, Mediterranean sea , OP is not the witness
.34 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cchu9a/saint_augustine_fl/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, st augustine Florida, single light object, pulsating, video shows stationary and moving, observed splitting, twolights observed , One bright orange light comes out, splits into 4,
.35 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccop7z/unknown_flying_object/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, flareup, I was filming what I thought was a satellite but then this very bright flash happened, contemporaneous report, urban area, Quebec Canada 🇨🇦, very bright, golden to the naked eyes
.36 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccoybi/weird_point_of_light_in_the_sky/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, single light object, moon for comparison observed, duration 5-10 seconds, witness looked away and looked back, vanished
.37 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cczt88/sighting_in_minneapolis_42424_story_in_comments/ video, urban area, Minneapolis Minnesota, two witnesses, duration 10 minutes, threelights, flying in formation, reaction to being filmed, formation change, lighting configuration change, As I started filming on my phone, the 'lead' light moved out in front of the others and off to the side. Shortly after, the second light disappeared, leaving just one which hovered in place until we lost sight of it behind some trees., from car, nighttime, contemporaneous report, has anyone seen? , near airport, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport.,
.38 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ccqc4l/strange_moving_lights/ video, nighttime sky, from car, woodland hills California, single object multiple lights, moving erratically, trajectory change, crossed directly in front, possible law enforcement response, a few cops with lights and sirens passed by quickly after.,
.39 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cc7mbl/ufos_what_is_this/ video, daytime cloudy sky, urban area, Groningen the Netherlands 🇳🇱 , contemporaneous report, fleet, flashing erratically, video shows appearing out of nowhere, horizontal trajectory,
.40 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cc6vqz/potential_sighting_in_london/ video, daytime cloudy sky, fleet observed, video shows single light object, orange 🟠, urban area, London England the UK 🇬🇧, made two passes, twolights, two witnesses, reaction to being filmed, vanishing, When I told my wife to record, four of them disappeared and only one remained. I then drove towards Highbury and Islington roundabout, and then two appeared after.,
.41 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cd1cih/went_back_through_some_old_videos_i_took_last/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, diffuse light, low over treeline, anomalous to witness, at home, that night the land was glowing in a way we’ve never seen before, maybe I’m a crazy old lady but it looked like something landed there., electronic effects camera interference, Canada 🇨🇦 ,repeat visitor ,two witnesses https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cdfpty/tonights_blue_cloud_et_show/ more video, contemporaneous report
.42 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cbn6cl/can_someone_identify_this_green_beem/ photo, nighttime cloudy sky, powerlines, single light object, elongated, vertical orientation, green 🟢, Atlantic island of st. Vincent part of the cape verde archipelago, near water Atlantic Ocean, stationary, duration 10 minutes,
.43 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdmlce/maybe_caught_something_on_camera_nj/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single object, observed moving erratically, abruptly zipped back and forth as though under control., somerset new jersey
.44 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdbxj2/what_am_i_seeing/ timelapse video, nighttime sky, multiple objects, trajectory change horizontal to vertical, Ontario Canada 🇨🇦, downvoted to zero
.45 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdf2wc/what_is_this/ video, daytime cloudy sky, from car, powerlines, Gold Coast Australia 🇦🇺, contemporaneous report, single object blackwhite
.46 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cd59kz/ufo_i_personally_shot_footage_of_at_the_end_of/ video, at home, urban area, Miami Florida, possibly rotating, moving erratically, up down left right, duration 40 minutes, witness went to sleep, I got tired at some point and took a small nap, woke up it was still there, went to sleep, woke up again and it was gone. , downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, elongated, horizontal orientation, stationary
.47 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdm7hi/tracking_the_plasmoid_is_quite_difficult_as_the/ video, nighttime sky, through infrared camera, repeat visitors , downvoted to zero
.48 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdpxba/just_saw_this_from_lambertville_nj_headed_west/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, Lambertville new jersey, daytime sky, single light object moving straight, plane for comparison observed, downvoted to zero
.49 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cbk7rv/random_stories_from_the_life_of_a_boring_person/ experience descriptions, multiple events, ongoing, at home, two witnesses, single light object, approach, jumpy movement, blue 🔵, Almost like it zeroed in on us as soon as it knew that we noticed it., emotion of fear, witnesses left the area, similar sightings in comments
.50 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ccbgls/strange_happenings/ sighting descriptions, multiple events, entity, Ohio, ongoing, multiple people saw a large creature standing in the woods between trees watching all these players, through night vision scope, humanoid, antlers, vanished, anomalous silence, footsteps, missing time , mimicking
.51 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cddvg5/does_anybody_remember_being_an_energy_orb/ memory description, has anyone seen?, I remember I was part of a litter of lights with siblings all around me. A tribe of little stars with the background of the universe except all these galaxies and such were brighter.... I chose my parents....I was raising my legs, resting on the floor on my back while my diapers were getting changed. And I clearly thought, "Aww shit, here we go again."
.52 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ccr8tq/7_tall_shadow_silhouette_in_my_bedroom_what_do_i/ sighting description, at home, nighttime, inside bedroom, entity, humanoid, shadow figure, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, it looked slightly hunched over and was staring directly at me, contemporaneous report, similar sightings in comments
.53 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cd3tot/my_sighting_that_made_me_believe/ sighting description, Bibione Italy 🇮🇹 , daytime, over water, Mediterranean sea, single light object, metallic sphere, overhead, stationary, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, similar sightings in comments
.54 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cddyzb/interesting_object_near_langley_afb/ photos and videos, nighttime, from car, fleet or single object multiple lights, there was a string of lights and some blinking green lights., duration 45 minutes, stationary or moving slowly, video shows flashing in sequence, multicolored, near USAF, Langley Virginia, [GOODPOST]
.55 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cdal29/unidentified_object_flying_over_san_jose_ca_today/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, contemporaneous report, urban area, san Jose California, two witnesses duration 1 minute, disappeared into clouds
.56 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdv28y/what_looks_like_a_moving_star_that_moves_in_a/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, single light object, moving and stationary and moving, overhead, jerky movement as it was constantly speeding up and slowing down in two second increments., at home, two witnesses, duration 3 minutes, Tartu Estonia 🇪🇪, similar sightings in comments
.57 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdwhk9/ufo_sighting_westchester_ny_october_2023_at_2am/ photos, nighttime cloudy sky, at home, outside window, twolights, reaction to being filmed, sudden departure, Westchester new York state, over water, Hudson River, downvoted to zero
.58 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdynoc/3_white_orb_ufos_over_carson_city_nv_april_24/ video, nighttime sky, threelights, urban area, Carson city Nevada, single light object stationary and moving, reaction to being observed, additional twolights, overhead,
.59 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdynswhat_was_it/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, flashing erratically or jumpy movement, possibly rotating, repeat visitor, possible reaction to being filmed, Used to see them often and I haven’t seen them again since then. , similar sighting in comments , urban area, Las Vegas Nevada
.60 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1cdxz9j/i_guess_ill_just_throw_this_experience_out_there/ childhood experience description, entity, I just have this memory of running through what seemed to be a building. I was running away from someone, but I don't remember why, I ran until I came across this door that opened by itself and hid inside. Then this tan or brown colored "mantis" being appeared in the doorway. I don't remember anything after that., event amnesia
.61 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cdw5ka/uniform_cloudgas_ball_with_bright_light_inside/ long exposure photo, nighttime sky, single light object moving, also seen by eye, Northern Arizona., two witnesses, powerlines,
.62 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ce1lmi/a_light_from_above_lit_my_friends_entire_house_up/ experience description, no craft, at home, nighttime, witness woke up, outside window, backyard, darkness bright as day, After he looked out the front, he said the light was everywhere, as if it were coming from above. , upstate New York, anomalous silence, he noticed everything fell completely silent. , apathy, witness went to sleep, he felt compelled to no longer search for the source of the light, despite spending a few minutes looking already., similar sightings in comments, [GOODPOST]
.63 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ce3snh/earliest_memory_is_of_an_owl_when_i_was_3_years/ childhood experience description, my earliest memory is of an owl, and me riding on its back to the back of my parents property, and then me walking back in my pajamas and climbing back in the window. , repeat visitors, downvoted to zero, Michigan
.64 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cdw4vl/by_the_facilitators_of_the_x_space_full_jason/ the Jason Sands interview, OP is the interview host
.65 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ceh0c2/strange_orange_light_silently_moving_in_unison/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, single light object, orange 🟠 observed, urban area, Sydney Australia 🇦🇺, recorded on 2 different cameras, flew overhead, emotion of fear, I felt a bit of fear and my legs started shaking as the lights silently moved above my head., fleet observed, two pairs of twolights, [GOODPOST]
.66 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ce8i3v/i_saw_my_first_ufo_i_think/ video, nighttime sky, near home, i noticed something very odd on top of a tree in my neighbor's front yard., single dim object, irregular shape, shape change observed, looked like some sort of net just floating there, it looked translucent., reaction to being observed, stationary and moving, vanishing and reappearing or second object, over the witness home, video shows diffuse object, elongated, horizontal orientation, felt as it was absorbing the light in the back yard and emitting a sparkly light., downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted , near USAF, Lockheed Air Force Base, fort worth Texas, physical effects goosebumps, wtf_is_this
.67 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ceilz4/my_ufo_encounter_in_khartoum_2016_similar_to/ sighting description and drawing, Khartoum- Bahri Sudan 🇸🇩 , nighttime, single object, crescent 🌙 shape or manta, moving straight, possibly cloaked, silent, duration 30 seconds,
.68 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cedcsw/i_think_i_saw_a_ufo/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, two witnesses, single dim object moving straight, This thing was barely visible with a few brighter white dots here and there, it was also absolutely silent.,orientation change, boomerang 🪃, approach, trajectory change, disappeared behind treeline, Australia 🇦🇺
.69 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ce2bam/flying_over_detroit_at_the_draft/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, oval-shaped, tumbling, trajectory change, descending, low over rooftop, two witnesses, contemporaneous report, urban area, Detroit Michigan
.70 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ceptdd/mysterious_orange_lights_in_the_sky/ photo, nighttime sky, threelights, triangle formation, orange 🟠, at home, backyard, low over treeline, the UK 🇬🇧, They moved in really weird speeds and directions while one of the lights was stationary for a couple of seconds., similar sightings in comments
.71 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ces9bl/ufo_didnt_show_up_on_camera/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object observed, electronic effects camera can't detect it, two witnesses, moving straight, possibly rotating or tumbling, The other odd thing is it looked like it had distortion around it., submission statement issues, removed, urban area, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
.72 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ceo8w3/truth_too_strange_for_public_consumption_old_man/ information, family story, father, worked at Wright Patterson air force base for over 20 years, aliens were not pacifists. As they had several battles one destroyed a planet beyond mars, then the battle moved to mars where they stripped the atmosphere with weapons and the survivors from the multiple races then came to earth as a last resort. Only ape men were here when they came.
.73 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cesul0/ufo_yesterday_upstate_new_york_jet_followed_5/ photo and reference images, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, elongated, trail or disk shape, angled from the horizon, plane for comparison observed
.74 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ce5m5l/has_anyone_else_had_an_encounter_with_a/ sighting description and drawing, entity, cloaked, has anyone seen?, inside home, suddenly out of no where, A large being appears in front of me. It was tall and slim. It was like the silhouette of a man. It was, what I always described as, “see through.” , wavy edges, directly in front, physical effects paralysis, It then raised its right arm, witness felt observed, emotion of, witness left the area, similar sightings in comments, [GOODPOST]
.75 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cevkh8/today_around_230am_i_was_able_to_capture_some/ video, nighttime sky, fleet, multiple objects, Camargo Chihuahua Mexico 🇲🇽 , moving slowly, low over rooftop, urban area, very bright, satellites?
.76 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cf0nhn/uaps_spotted_in_central_alabama_april_5_2024/ video, daytime cloudy sky, Prattville Alabama, downvoted to zero, three witnesses, cylinder shaped observed https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cfd99y/uaps_spotted_in_central_alabama_april_5_2024/ slowed version, single light object moving fast, possible disk shape with dome or triangle 🔺️, horizontal orientation, smaller objects accompany it
.77 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cex9x8/possibly_true_ufo_story/ sighting description, family story, grandmother's father, Russia 🇷🇺, nighttime, from car, out of nowhere, there’s a massive floating disk in the sky, which flies right over them. My granny’s dad pulls the car over, and looks at this flying disc, which was still right above them, and a bright light beams out for a good amount of time (do not know the exact time) and just flies away at a unnatural speed, overhead, sudden departure, two witnesses, possible physical effects illness, colleague died of a sudden cancer a year later.
.78 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ceid79/i_stumbled_into_what_i_can_only_describe_as_a/ experience description, hiking, At one point during my walk, I had an intense sensation of crossing some kind of boundary. , emotional reaction shock, The first thing I noticed was the branches, covered in fuzzy black things that moved like “electrical” or energy wisps. , audio description distant, deep, vibrating noise that undulated back and forth., physical effects paralysis, I saw what looked like a geometric pattern in the woods., temperature change, it had become much colder. However, I felt a warmth coming from behind me, light illuminating surroundings, emotion of fear, witness left the area, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, the cathedral - a complex vaulted structure that seems to underlay what we experience as reality. , similar experiences in comments
.79 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1ceo42v/central_florida_east_side_near_colonial_town_and/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, fleet, one following another, low below treeline, horizontal trajectory, urban area, central Florida, similar sighting in comments
.80 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cex54b/dreams_where_greys_teach_me_how_their_engines_work/ dream description, entity, inside craft, a Grey alien took me onto his ship. While on the ship he taught me how their engines worked. The only things I remember specifically is that they have a "photon engine" and that it works like the large hadron collider., has anyone seen?
.81 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1cdrecc/hypnopompic_hallucinations_showing_me_the_words/ experience description, at home, nighttime, witness woke up, the words "syntax error" were written multiple times around a central anchor spot like a wheel of fortune spin thing., similar experiences in comments
.82 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1cf1he6/my_ufo_story/ sighting description, nighttime, near water, Prince Rupert British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦, two witnesses, underwater light, single dark object, exiting water, green red and blue 🟢🔴🔵, flashing in sequence, silent, approach, flew overhead, military response helicopter, the coast guard had dispatched a helicopter to follow it and it was really loud. It followed the UFO as it passed over the city sky, out of view. the USO began to sink into the harbour, and eventually disappeared., entering water,
.83 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1ce7a9c/i_observed_an_unusual_shining_object_in_the_sky/ sighting description, Chandapur Karnataka India 🇮🇳 , at home, nighttime, single light object moving fast, possibly elongated, similar sighting in comments
.84 https://old.reddit.com/Thetruthishere/comments/1cey4ce/i_think_i_saw_a_witch/ sighting description, la bruja, three witnesses, daytime
.85 https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1cevddw/blue_plasma_ball/ sighting description, two witnesses, single light object, blue 🔵, nighttime, horizontal trajectory, low over ground, from car, similar sightings in comments
.86 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1cf6osq/new_to_reddit_saw_tons_of_ufos_at_sessanta/ sighting description, moving stars, multiple objects observed, single light object moving and stationary, flareup, possible electronic effects monitors showing the stage glitched for a few minutes after that. , north Carolina
.87 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1cbozwe/a_tear_in_space_a_glitch_in_the_matrix/ experience description, near USAF, Travis AFB northern California, daytime sky, plane for comparison, part of the sky started to glitch and warp like it was shorting out., a cloud-like structure started to form from nothing. It began to swirl horizontally., two witnesses, When he left that day. I saw the look on his face. He looked shattered., wtf_is_this, physical effects paralysis, As we kept watching, another part of the sky began to glitch., A long vertical line materialized., A huge battleship slowly appeared in the void on the other side of the tear., structure observed, stationary, duration 10 minutes, vanishing , got the feeling we weren't supposed to see this., [GOODPOST]
.88 https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1cekl9g/the_light_disappeared_for_a_second/ experience description, flash of darkness,
.89 https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1cf8n14/here_is_my_story_and_i_am_interested_in_hearing/ experience description, no craft, at home, witness woke up, audio description computer sounds, brief duration, physical effects paralysis, for a split second all the cats and myself froze in place.

I called my uncle Roy yesterday. I had not heard from the old mountain man is a couple weeks, which was odd because he has been reaching out to me regularly in recent weeks. I called to check on him to see if he was ok.
Uncle Roy lives way up in the mountains of North Carolina. I have to reach him by satellite phone because he has no land line and there are no cell towers for miles and miles around. He lives completely off the grid.
So I dialed up Roy. The phone rang and rang. I thought that maybe he was busy at his still or skinning a Bigfoot or something. Then there was a pickup. I said “Hello? Hello? Uncle Roy, are you there?”
Nobody answered. It was quiet at first; too quiet. Then I heard a growling sound. It was real quiet at first, then rose in volume and ferocity. It sounded dog like, but from a really BIG dog. Then I heard another beast growling in the background. I could tell by the timbre of the second growl that it came from another source.
Then there was a blood curdling howl. It sounded as if I had accidentally dialed a hotline straight to Hell. The ungodly and demonic sounds coming through my receiver made me freeze in terror. I said “Uncle Roy?!? Are you there?!? What’s going on?!?!?!”
Then something happened because all hell broke loose on the other end. There were growls - vicious growls - and sounds of a struggle. Then I heard what sounded like a man letting out a battle cry, “AAHHHHHHHH!!!!” There were some thuds, more vicious growls, and then “Die ya sumbitch!”, followed by the sound of a yelping hurt dog. Then “BOOM!!” and another yelp. What in the heck was going on?!? It sounded like some kind of horrific murder scene.
Then uncle Roy picked up. “Who in tarnation this here be?” Roy asked in an agitated voice. I said “Uncle Roy? It’s me, The General! What’s going on?!? Are you ok?!?” Roy said “General? Well, Goddamn, boy! You has got ya sum Goddamn good timing, let me Tells ya! You jest saved my life, son!” He continued, “Looky here, General, I gots me sum unfinished bidnez here. Let me clean up this slop and I’ll give ya a ring in a little while. Don’t worry nun abouts me. I is fine now! Heh heh heh!”
So late last night uncle Roy called me back. He explained that he had been in an ordeal when I called, but he managed to get himself out of it. I asked him to tell me what happened, which he did. What follows is my transcription of uncle Roy’s story, kept as authentic as possible.
“Well sir, I had got my ass up early yesterday cuz I had to go down into town to pick me up a special package at the UPS store. I went on down there, picked it up, loaded it into the back of my old pick-em-up truck and headed home. When I got to me parking spot off the side of the road, I had my old mule, “Jethro” tide to a tree and a’watin fer me. I strapped the crate onta Jethro’s back and led that sumbitch up the side of the mountain and on inta Sasquatch Hollar. After a couple hours we made it to my cabin.”
“I unloaded that thar mule, then put him in the shed. I dragged my package inside and fetched me crowbar to open her up. Well, I pried it open, pulled out all that thar protective wrap, and there she was: Ariana Grande!!”
I paused and then asked, “Ariana Grande? What? You mean that idiot singer?” Roy replied, “Yep, that’s who I mean.”
I start thinking, “Oh shit... Roy kidnapped that ditzy pop singer out of some sort of preternatural attraction. He is going to make her into some kind of farm-hand/sex-slave.” I said, “Roy, is she ... alive?” Roy responded, “Fuck no, boy, she ain’t alive. She’s fer fuckin”. That did not make me feel any better.
I love my Uncke Roy. But he is a very peculiar man who is not troubled by things like morality and laws. I know Roy has done some messed up stuff, but abduction and necrophilia had never crossed my mind.
I said “Roy, you got to get rid of her body. She’s a pop star. They are going to be looking for her. Uncle Roy, you can’t do this”. Roy responded, “What the fuck is you goin on about, boy?”. I told him “Roy, you have possession of a dead celebrity and you want to fuck it. Goddamn, that’s sick!”
Uncle Roy then broke out laughing. He said, “You fucking asshole! She ain’t no real girl. This here is one of them thar sex robots. It cost me a pretty penny too. I wanted one that looked like Gwen Stefani, but they wanted too much money fer that one. They gives me a big discount if’s I take one of them thar Arianna Grande models. I don’t even know who in the hell she is, but she looks like one of them thar hybrid girls, you know, half white and half somethin er other.”
Ah, a sex robot. Uncle Roy got a sex robot. I was relieved. After I realized my mistake I turned my attention back to the story and what the hell happened earlier. I asked Roy to continue.
“So, I got that Grande doll out of the box and sat it there on the couch. I sed to her ‘My, ain’t you a purty thang! Now git in that thar kitchen and fixes me up sum grub. GIT!’. But, that robot didn’t move one anch. I commanded her agin. Nuthin. I thought to myself ‘either this thang is broke er it’s so lifelike that it’s got a bitch’s attitude and needs to be treated jest right to werk.’ So I decided to give it another try.”
“I sits down next to Ariana, puts my arm around her, and puts my other hand high on the ham. I then leaned over and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. I said, ‘Baby, go whips me up sum vittles and I’ll let ya suck my cock while I eats em.’ Still, nothin.”
“So I figured she wuz playing hard to git, and I wuz Not havin me any of that. So I grabbed that bitch by the hair and punched her in the throat, repeatly. Well, apparently, I hit her too goddamn hard cuz her hed came off in my hand. ‘SHIT!!’, I yelled. This cheap motherfucker dun fell apart before I even git ta fuck her.”
“So I studied the situation and cyphered that I best git what I can while I can. I pulled out my old wang and stuck it in her mouth while I held the severed hed to my crotch. Nuthin. Now, I bought this fucking thang because it’s a robot and supposed to move and act like a real woman. I wuz gettin a might pissed. I tried harder, face-fucking that thar thang. Nuthin.”
“I yelled ‘FUCK!!’, and slung that Ariana Grande head agin the wall. It hit with a loud ‘THUD’ and then fell on the floor. Then a thought hit me. Maybe this thang needs to be turned on. It is a robot after all. Shit, fer that matter it prolly needs to be charged up. Well, sir, I knew how to rectify this here situation.
“I dragged that headless Ariana Grande doll body out to my shed where I kept my tractor. So what I did wuz I got me a pair of jumper cables and attached them to the battry on my John Deere. I cranked that muthafuka ta life and then I attached the other end to Ariana by clamping them to her little wine-glass titties. As I did I sed, ‘Oh, excuse me, Ms. Grande’, as I chuckled to myself.”
“After a minute of chargin, that old headless Grande doll started smoking. I wuz all fandangled, and let out a ‘SHIT FIRE!!!’ Her little titties were a’ meltin!! I frantically unhooked the bitch and put out the far. Dejected and defeated, I dragged that robotic bitch back inta my cabin.”
“So there she wuz, laying on my living room floor, right on my Sasquatch skin rug, the severed Grande robot hed and its topless body with burned-up titties. I decided to study on this situation a bit while I eats me sum vittles.”
“I had me sound ground Bigfoot meat thawin out, and it wuz ready to fix up. I wuz planning on making me up sum Sasquatch burgers. Now, ya got to understand that Sasquatch meat ain’t like no cow or pig meat. This Bigfoot meat is sum nasty shit. First of all, it’s dark meat. And I mean it is black! It is also greasy as goose shit. It’s kind of like bar meat, but nastier.”
“You cain’t jest mold Bigfoot meat inta a burger, ya see. You gots to put sum stuff inta it to make it mold together. You can mix ya in some hamburger meat, or bread crumbs, or whatever. But tonight I had me sumthang REAL special to mix in. I had acquired me sum fresh hawg semen and cow blood! I got it down at the local slaughter house. They jest give that shit away!!!”
“What I like to do is put that old Sasquatch meat in a big old bowl, all ground up, then poor in the blood and semen. Then I roll up my sleeves and dive in with my hands, grinding and squeezing and mixin it all up. See, hog jizz is a lot thicker than human jizz. It’s also a lot tastier, lending a nice bouillabaisse note to the dish. The cow blood gives it a nice tangy body. I also like to ad some A-1 sauce to da mix.”
“Now, Son, ya got to bear sumthang in mind here. Yer old Uncle Roy is gettin on up thar in years. In fact, I don’t even know how old I is. But I do know that sumtimes I slip up whar I used to be sharp as a whip. This here wuz one of those days.”
“Ya see, I had kilt me a big old 10’ tall Sasquatch a couple week ago. That skanky sumbitch came a creepin’ up to my shed in the dead of night. They know that’s whar I stash sum of my hooch, and they like to sneak in there and get ‘em a sip. What that sumbitch did not know is that I been havin sum run-ins with them thar damn dogmans lately and I wuz out and about on my property.”
“Now, Son, I know ya know what a dogman is. They is basically a werewolf. The sumbitches is wolves but they can stand and walk on 2 legs like a man. They anywhere from 7’ to 15’ tall, and they is pure evil! They also is dangerous. They a lot more dangerous than a Bigfoot.”
“Them thar Bigfoots Are Big, dumb apes. BUT, they is smart enough to know when they been whipped. Ya see, me and then sumbitches pretty much got us an understanding that if they don’t fuck with me, then I won’t kill ‘em. Therefore, they give me my space. That sed, they will still fuck round witcha, like sneaking around trying to steal your shine stash, just like a bunch of naggers.”
“But these damn dogmen ain’t like that. Oh, sure, they is smart. But they ain’t got no self-awareness like a Bigfoot. They am full o hate! A Bigfoot will contemplate, it will study a situation. That old dog man, he is pure evil straight from hell. They ain’t worth a shit fer eatin either. They taste like sulfur! I don’t want anything to do with them nasty beasts. When I Kills em I jest drag em off my mountain and set the nasty turds on fire.”
“So, a pack of them thar dogmans came through Sasquatch Hollar. I knowed they been fucking around on my homestead cuz I seen the paw prints. We ain’t got us none of them thar wolves here in North Carolina. So, when you see them really big canine tracks suddenly show up on your property, you can know they is dogman.”
So, there I wuz, on my rooftop, with a jug of shine and a 6.5 Creedmore rifle with nightvision optics. I wuz a’plannin to kill me sum dogman scum when up came this dumbass old Sasquatch, slinking up to my old shed to get him a nip of Old Roy’s mountain shine.”
“I watched that Bigfoot fer a long time, peeking out from behind trees, tiptoeing closer a little at a time, craning his neck to make sure nobody wuz around, then tiptoeing sum more. It wuz Goddamn pathetic! Them Bigfoots are nuthin but giant pussies. It took that dumb bitch 10 minutes to get from the hard woodline to the door of my shed.”
“That old Sasquatch did not know I wuz anywhar around. I had been following it’s movement through the nightvision scope on my rifle. By the time it got to my cabin I had flipped the safety off. Then it got to my shed. It stepped up to the shed door, slowly put its paw on the door latch, then looked to its left. Then it looked to the right, slowly turning its entire upper body in that direction. Then it turned back to the shed door, presumably about to enter.”
“BOOM!!!!!” The report of the 6.5 blast wuz a’ deafening! That critter’s head exploded like a cantaloupe, splattering blood and brain everywhar! It wuz a glorious sight to behold!”
“I decided I would let that dead critter lay where it died fer a spell as bait fer them sumbitchin Dogmans. Unfortunately, it didn’t werk that night, or else they jest don’t like Bigfoot meat. They is, after all, natural enemies of each other, the dogman and the Sasquatch.”
“So, at dawn, I dragged that headless Bigfoot into my cabin and laid it out on my kitchen counter. Any veteran Sasquatcher knows that you got to tenderize that critter a’fer ya can eat it. Only a newb skins a Sasquatch and throws it right on the grill. So I commenced to beaten the corpse with a mallet. Then, I wuz gonna jest let it lay there an rot fer a few days, like how ya age beef. It won’t hurt ya one bit to rot yer meat a bit a’fer eatin it.”
“Now here’s a’where I fucked up. I needed to gut that sumbitchin critter. But, I had received a cyber notice that a new amateur video of an Asian chick being fucked on a public bus Had jest been uploaded on Pornhub. I decided to take me a look at it, then gut the squatch later. Well, later never come. I fell asleep and then totally fergot about the task. That dead critter laid out on my kitchen counter fer a good 2 weeks, it did. I guess I jest kind of assumed the cleaning job wuz all dun.”
“So, fast-forward ahead and there I wuz, gettin ready to fix me sum Sasquatch burgers. I had my ground up Bigfoot meat all mixed up in a bowl with hog jism and cow blood, and completely in the dark on the current internal chemical happenins with that Bigfoot corpse laid out on my kitchen counter. I noticed it wuz gettin a’kind of bloated. But I did not know that it was because of all those internal gases buildin’ up in the dead critter’s body cavity. I sure as shit did not know it wuz about to explode!”
“Then it happened. KA-BOOOOOOM!!! That Sasquatch corpse a’layin’ on my counter plum exploded!! Rotten Bigfoot guts and blood went everywhere! It covered my kitchen and my livinroom. Everthang!”
“Well sir, I wuz pissed! I started throwin shit, and tearin up shit. I even drew my .44 magum and started blasting shit. Then I saw that goddamn headless Ariana Grande robot layin on the floor. ‘Fuck it’, I thought. ‘Jest FUCK IT!’ So I took down my draws and raped that thang!!”
“Well, I did not know - because of all the goins on in my cabin - that a couple of them thar nasty Dogmans had snuck up and was a’watchin me through the winder. What a sight they must have seen! There I wuz, in the middle of a blood and gut soaked scene, bare-assed and fucking that headless doll.”
“That scene must’ve driven them Dogmans inta a hot-n-heavy, horny, murder frenzy, cuz they smashed down my door, grabbed me and the headless Grande robot, and dragged us off into the woods. Man, I was a’scairt! These Dogmans were big. They both stood a good 12’ tall, or MORE!”
“Those rotten critters dragged me off into their lair, a cave just the other side of Poltergeist Ridge. They throwed me down against the far cave wall. Then they turned their attention to the doll. They both had ‘em a couple big old red shankers stickin out of their loins. They would sniff the doll, then try to mount it. The holes weren’t big enough to accommodate their big dog wangs, so they would get all frustrated and growl at the robot, then they would try agin.”
“Now, this is where the shit got weird. I could not escape because them infernal dogman beasts were a’blocking the entrance to the cave. And I was admittedly amused by the sight of these goddamn thangs trying to get it on with a doll. I could not contain myself and let out a’laughin at them. I sed, ‘You stupid sumbitches!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!’ That’s when they dropped the robot and both turned in my direction, throbbing erections pointed right at me. ‘Uh Oh!’, I thought.”
“Those two Dogmans began moving toward me. I knew they intended to make luv on me, doggy style. That’s when my satellite phone started ringing. I pulled that sumbitch out of the case on my gun belt, but before I could answer it, the dogman on the left swatted it outa my hand. Then they turned their attention on the ringing phone.”
“Them damn thangs were all agitated by the ranging and were a’swipin at it. They musta hit ‘answer’, and that’s when you heard all the growlin’. When they heard your voice on it they went crazy! They musta thunk you wuz inside the phone and it perplexed them.”
“With them dogmen distracted by the phone, I decided it wuz time to make my move. I bolted forward and grabbed what wuz left of that Ariana Grande sex doll -pretty much just the torso - and used it as a club, beating the shit out of them thar dogman critters. I wuz a’fightin fer my life!”
“I wuz a’swangin old Ariana around and a’whackin them critters off! I remembered the Kabar knife on my belt and whipped out that sumbitch. Then I used Ariana as a shield. I closed in on the first critter, which wuz already wounded, and stabbed it right in its heart. It let out an unholy ‘yelp’ as I hit the organ.”
“Then the other dogman lunged at me. In one motion I swiftly withdrew the long knife from the heart of the first critter and slashed at the second one, slicing its hard-on clean off. Then that one let out a yelp and a cry of pain as it reached down and grabbed its crotch. I sed, ‘Take that, bitch!’, and thrust my blade into its heart. ‘Boom!’, it hit the ground!”
“Both them motherfuckers were ded! Then I answered the phone, and it twere you, General. You saved my life!”
Roy went on to tell me that he burned the bodies of the Dogman creatures, and the Ariana Grande fuckbot. He then went into town to see his insurance man to file a claim on his homeowners policy for the mess at his cabin. He checked into a local hotel called “The Sasquatch Inn” while ServPro is out at his home cleaning up the mess. After he got settled in for the night he called me and told me this encounter story.